I am having serious problems with Qt-4.5.0 on FreeBSD. I am on 7.1.-STABLE, with G++ 4.2.1. After checking with Nokia, I find that FreeBSD us an unsupported platform. I don't know when this changed, but FreeBSD users are now second class citizens.

I had to uninstall Qt-3.3.8 first, and then explicitly set the -no-pch option. Finally it built. But when I run anything, all fonts are white squares. I am including a screenshot, so that people believe me. I am stumped now. I am unable to continue KDE development, because trunk requires Qt 4.5.0.

There is no problem with Qt 4.4.3, only with 4.5.0. Has anyone managed to solve this?

I found a partial solution. Configure with the -no-iconf option. This is still suboptimal though, as iconv is there for a reason. Even though Nokia has dropped support for FreeBSD (qtcreator won't build either), I still consider this a bug, and they need to fix it.

I believe the Maintainers of KDE on FreeBSD may be able to help you with this ( and will likely be interested themselves )

bcooksley wrote:I believe the Maintainers of KDE on FreeBSD may be able to help you with this

I have been talking with them. They are very smart, but still unpaid volunteers. There is no reason they should have to deal with some of these unnecessary hurdles.