Updating Qt

Building Qt 6

• Follow the instructions here to clone the Qt repository and install the prerequisites (perl, ruby, ninja, cmake): https://wiki.qt.io/Building_Qt_6_from_Git
• The following examples will assume you cloned to C:\code\qt
• Create a folder for building: C:\code\qt\qt6-build
• Create a folder for the final output: C:\code\qt\install
• Start a x64 Native Tools Command Prompt for VS 2022. Make sure it has both ruby and perl in the PATH.
• cd into C:\code\qt\qt6-build
• Run the qt configure command: ..\configure.bat -submodules qtsvg,qtbase -nomake examples -nomake tests -prefix C:\code\qt\install -debug-and-release -force-debug-info
• Build: ninja
• Produce the final package: ninja install
• Now rename the install folder to your new Qt version. e.g. Qt6-6.4.0-vs143-x64. Zip the resulting folder using 7z so that the 7z file contains the Qt6-6.4.0-vs143-x64 folder.

Release the qt zip

• Create a new tag in the https://github.com/ezEngine/thirdparty repository. Give it the same name as the new qt version e.g. Qt6-6.4.0-vs143-x64
• Create a new release from this tag and attach the 7z file you created earlier.
• Change the path in the ezCMakeConfig.cmake in the ezEngine main repository to point to this newly released 7z file.

Update the thirdparty zip for CI

• On our azure account download the current thirdparty zip from the ez-container container. Remove the old QT version, and add the new one.
• Crate a new thirdparty zip and upload it to ez-container
• Create a SAS for the new thirdparty zip and give it a end date far in the future
• Now update the secret ThirdPartyWinx64Qt6 in ezKeys and store the new SAS url there. Alternatively you can also create a new secret and change the Code\BuildSystem\AzurePipelines\Windows-x64.yml pipeline to access the new secret instead.