Support for QtCharts 6

[ronisbr]

Hi!

I am trying to migrate an application that uses a julia back end and a QML front end to QML.jl. However, I really need the QtCharts 6, which does not seem to be supported. Is there any blocking issues preventing this feature? It seems that we had the possibility in Qt 5 by installing Qt5Charts_jll but I did not find the package for Qt 6.

[ufechner7]

QtCharts was not supported in 6.0 but it is supported in 6.1

[ronisbr]

Yes! Which Qt version QML uses right now? 6.7?

[barche]

Yes, we use Qt 6.7. The problem is that there is no JLL for QtCharts for Qt 6, it needs to be added in Yggdrasil.

[ronisbr]

I see. Do you think it is a difficult task? I can try to make a PR but I have never worked with Yggdrasil before. Any tips?

[barche]

If Charts only depends on Qt6Base it should be easy, using Qt6Svg as a template: https://github.com/JuliaPackaging/Yggdrasil/blob/master/Q/Qt6Svg/build_tarballs.jl

[ronisbr]

Thanks! I will try

[ronisbr]

Looking here:

https://www.freshports.org/x11-toolkits/qt6-charts/

It seems it only depends on Qt6Base indeed.

[barche]

Also Qt6Declarative, it seems. Just adding this as normal and host build dep should work, so not much more complicated.

[ronisbr]

Unfortunately I just could not use BinaryBuilder in macOS for some problem with Docker. I am trying to debug it, but even Qt6Svg could not be built here.

[ronisbr]

Here is the error:

[ Info: Docker base image already exists, skipping import...
[14:32:12]  ---> cd $WORKSPACE/srcdir
[14:32:12]  ---> mkdir build
[14:32:12]  ---> cd build/
[14:32:12]  ---> qtsrcdir=`ls -d ../qtsvg-*`
[14:32:12]  ---> case "$bb_full_target" in
[14:32:12]  ---> apple_sdk_root=$WORKSPACE/srcdir/MacOSX13.3.sdk
[14:32:12]  ---> sed -i "s!/opt/x86_64-apple-darwin14/x86_64-apple-darwin14/sys-root!$apple_sdk_root!" $CMAKE_TARGET_TOOLCHAIN
[14:32:12]  ---> cmake -G Ninja -DQT_HOST_PATH=$host_prefix -DPython_ROOT_DIR=/usr -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=${prefix} -DCMAKE_PREFIX_PATH=$host_prefix -DCMAKE_FIND_ROOT_PATH=$prefix -DCMAKE_TOOLCHAIN_FILE=${CMAKE_TARGET_TOOLCHAIN} -DCMAKE_SYSROOT=$apple_sdk_root -DCMAKE_FRAMEWORK_PATH=$apple_sdk_root/System/Library/Frameworks -DCMAKE_OSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET=11 -DQT_NO_APPLE_SDK_AND_XCODE_CHECK=ON -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release $qtsrcdir
[14:32:12] Re-run cmake no build system arguments
[14:32:12] CMake Error at /usr/share/cmake/Modules/Compiler/._ADSP-DetermineCompiler.cmake:1:
[14:32:12]   Parse error.  Expected a command name, got bad character with text "".
[14:32:12] Call Stack (most recent call first):
[14:32:12]   /usr/share/cmake/Modules/CMakeCompilerIdDetection.cmake:6 (include)
[14:32:12]   /usr/share/cmake/Modules/CMakeCompilerIdDetection.cmake:33 (_readFile)
[14:32:12]   /usr/share/cmake/Modules/CMakeDetermineCompilerId.cmake:282 (compiler_id_detection)
[14:32:12]   /usr/share/cmake/Modules/CMakeDetermineCompilerId.cmake:301 (CMAKE_DETERMINE_COMPILER_ID_WRITE)
[14:32:12]   /usr/share/cmake/Modules/CMakeDetermineCompilerId.cmake:6 (CMAKE_DETERMINE_COMPILER_ID_BUILD)
[14:32:12]   /usr/share/cmake/Modules/CMakeDetermineCompilerId.cmake:59 (__determine_compiler_id_test)
[14:32:12]   /usr/share/cmake/Modules/CMakeDetermineCXXCompiler.cmake:120 (CMAKE_DETERMINE_COMPILER_ID)
[14:32:12]   CMakeLists.txt:7 (project)

[ronisbr]

JuliaPackaging/BinaryBuilder.jl#1348

I will come back to this issue when I can fix this problem.

[barche]

No worries, I created the PR at JuliaPackaging/Yggdrasil#9932

[ronisbr]

Awesome! Thanks!