[webkit-qt] How can I get my application to use an alternative libqtwebkit (harmattan)?

[Coda Highland]

It LOOKS right, so the remaining thought I have is to try tracing the
program on the device to see how it's doing the loading.

Don't ask me how to do that though >.> I don't know.

/s/ Adam

On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 7:17 AM, Felipe Crochik <felipe at crochik.com> wrote:
> Hi,
> First of all: thank you!
> I tried removing webkit from QT += and adding:
>
> INCLUDEPATH += /usr/include/qt4/QtWebKit
>
> LIBS += -L/opt/GApp/lib -Wl,-rpath,/opt/GApp/lib -lqtwebkit
>
>
> It built OK but on the device still uses the "standard" webkit library on
> /usr/lib
>
> Did I get anything wrong?
> Felipe
>
>
>
> On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 10:30 PM, Coda Highland <chighland at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>  LD_LIBRARY_PATH is probably taking a back seat to the rpath set in your
>> binary.
>>
>> I would recommend taking QT+=webkit out of your .pro file and manually
>> adding the include paths and linker flags, so that you can specify the
>> rpath linker flag explicitly to a different path.
>>
>> /s/ Adam
>>
>> On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 8:39 PM, Felipe Crochik <felipe at crochik.com>
>> wrote:
>> > Since there is a regression with PR1.2 (autosizecontents) I am trying to
>> > find a work around so I can distribute my application. My goal is to use
>> > the
>> > "qt on the device" + "libwebkit.so" (from PR1.1) without changing any of
>> > the
>> > shared libraries on the device.
>> >
>> > I just tested using the libqtwevkit.so from the package on the SDK
>> > (libqtwebkit4_2.1.1~git20110418-0maemo2+0m6_armel.deb) and it works just
>> > fine. Now the challenge is how to deploy it without affecting any other
>> > applications.
>> >
>> > I am copying the libQtWebKit.so.4 to a sub folder of my application
>> > (/opt/GApp/lib) and I tried without success:
>> >
>> > 1. "export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/opt/GApp/lib" and then running my
>> > application
>> > using the x-terminal
>> > 2. changing the source code of my application to include
>> > "QCoreApplication::addLibraryPath("/opt/GApp/lib");"
>> > 3. changing the PATH to start with "my lib" folder and then running my
>> > application.
>> >
>> > On all 3 cases the application used the "official" webkit and not "my
>> > version".
>> >
>> > So far the only way I managed to have my application use the
>> > "alternative"
>> > webkit was by changing the symbolic link on /usr/lib/libQtWebKit.so.4 to
>> > point to "my" webkit version.
>> >
>> > What is the correct/recommended way? Since I am using the "official" 1.1
>> > package I assume it expects to be installed to /usr/lib ...don't know if
>> > this is the problem or not.
>> >
>> > BTW,  I am not using the qml webview.
>> >
>> > Thanks in advance,
>> > Felipe
>> >
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