Static build not working

[dartmann]

Hi there, I tried to build a statically linked version of the original Ricochet IM client for Ubuntu 18.04. I know ricochet-refresh is its successor and therefore not directly the correct place for my issue. Anyway I hope that somebody can help me out. I am pretty sure that I won't get an answer when I open an issue in the old repo.

My problem is, that the compiled binary won't start with the error: qrc:/ui/main.qml:1 module "QtQuick" plugin "qtquick2plugin" not found. A quick research about this error got me no real help but the information that statically linked Qt programs can not load plugins - but the prebuild binaries are working (and so a static build).

Hopefully somebody can help me. I would also love to read a description of how to succefully build a statically linked version of the Ricochet Refresh client, because I was not able to run your modifed build scripts in buildscripts/linux-static as they should.

Thank you, David

[morganava]

This bug is a bit obsolete, as the old buildscripts have been removed in alpha and build moved to https://github.com/pospeselr/ricochet-build (a fork of Tor Project's tor-browser-build: https://gitweb.torproject.org/builders/tor-browser-build.git/

We do need to update our documentation for doing dev builds for each platform.

[milahu]

I was not able to run your modifed build scripts

why?

Hopefully somebody can help me.

so you need a dynamic build of ricochet.
when i build ricochet-refresh with qmake, i get a dynamic executable:

$ ldd /nix/store/m2yihaibiqwidhhn93cncv671as9fs83-ricochet-refresh-3.0.10/bin/.ricochet-refresh-wrapped | grep -i quick 
        libQt5Quick.so.5 => /nix/store/fnn8pbyfm5zgrfibg7m0xknx5x1s9a95-qtdeclarative-5.15.2/lib/libQt5Quick.so.5 (0x00007f4648d10000)

[m-simonelli]

Same reason as #106