Friday, July 04, 2025

Re: Cannot build x11/qt5/qtwebengine

On 2025/07/04 12:05, Maximo Pech wrote:
> I'm trying to build this because it's a requirement for www/otter-browser. The one from
> packages keeps segfaulting on me.

The packages you can download are just built from the ports tree,
there's no magic to it. If you get crashes from packages, there's a
very good chance that binaries from your own build will fail in the
same way.

For me, otter-browser from packages does run and open simple pages,
but fonts are a mess, and it segfaults when opening many pages.

> However, looking at this port it seems that the project has been
> inactive since 2020, the latest updates to the port itself are from
> 2023 and it still uses qtwebengine for qt5, which is also from 2020,
> so probably not a good idea to use this browser anyways.

otter-browser is still active upstream but they stopped making releases.

It may be worth trying to update the otter-browser port to use git head
and see how that goes. I didn't look closely but it seems to support
multiple backends (e.g. qtwebkit as well as qtwebengine).

https://github.com/OtterBrowser/otter-browser

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