QWebView in jlqml

[behzaadh]

Hello,

I wonder why you did not include QWebView in jlqml? any restriction that you tried to skip it?

[barche]

The need hasn't appeared until now. It should be easy to add, we just need a JLL for the relevant Qt library and add a wrapper for QtWebView::initialize()

[behzaadh]

Yes, it is pretty easy by adding QtWebView::initialize() to a wrapper. However, the Julia cannot load QTWebEngine library, even though it is compiled using MSVC 2019. Can you help me how I can create a JLL for the relevant Qt library? should be the same compiler x86_64-w64-mingw32 in windows or it can be MSVC 2019?

[barche]

It cannot work without a JLL package, and making one for QtWebView will need a few dependencies. I started the first PR on Yggdrasil here: JuliaPackaging/Yggdrasil#8141

[barche]

This is going to be a little more difficult than anticipated, Qt WebView contains chromium, which is not so easy to cross-compile it seems. Progress is here: JuliaPackaging/Yggdrasil#8229

Note that you can run the script from that PR locally to create a JLL package without binaries and then use an Overrides.toml to point to your locally installed Qt, provided that you also build libcxxwrap_julia and jlqml (and depending on the platform Julia itself) from source, or if you feel up to it poke around with BinaryBuilder in --debug mode to try and complete the build.