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

[Harri Pasanen]

You could try loading it explicitly.

"man dlopen" on linux will tell you more.

/Harri

On 04/12/2012 02:50 PM, Coda Highland wrote:
> 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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