Build script fails to build nextcloud client on Windows 10 - Qt 5.15.2

Hello Everyone,

It seems the current release is missing some important packages or it may lack some critical undocument steps.

Here is my enviroment versions:

• Windows 10 64bit
• Qt 5.15.2 both 32 and 64 bit
• Visual Studio 2019 both 32 and 64 bit

Steps to resolve some errors:

• Install doxygen-1.9.5 since it's is required by build.bat but undocument
• WIX variable is required example fix "export WIX="C:\Nextcloud\tools\wix""
• WiX headers are required and fixed by adding to C:\Nextcloud\client-buildingdesktop\CMakeLists.txt :

set(INCLUDE_DIR "C:/Nextcloud/tools/wix/sdk/inc")
include_directories (${INCLUDE_DIR})

• Latest inkspace is required and fixed by installing `inkscape-1.2.1.msi'
• The last required component is KDE archive F5Archive and error is :

CMake Error at src/gui/CMakeLists.txt:3 (find_package):
  Could not find a configuration file for package "KF5Archive" that is
  compatible with requested version "".

  The following configuration files were considered but not accepted:

    C:/CraftRoot/lib/cmake/KF5Archive/KF5ArchiveConfig.cmake, version: 5.98.0 (64bit)

-- Configuring incomplete, errors occurred!
See also "C:/Nextcloud/client-building/desktop/build/CMakeFiles/CMakeOutput.log".
See also "C:/Nextcloud/client-building/desktop/build/CMakeFiles/CMakeError.log".
"*** Build FAILED: desktop Release Win32 (single-build-desktop.bat)"

I tried to compile F5Archive from source and tried using Craft binaries. Both ways results to the same thing Could not find a configuration file for package "KF5Archive .

I compiled F5archive with the follwoing steps from Qt website:

Building extra-cmake-modules

• Install CMake for windows (http://www.cmake.org/) and remember to put it on path enviroment variable
• git clone https://github.com/KDE/extra-cmake-modules.git
• In extra-cmake-modules, use (x64 Native Tools Command Prompt for VS 2019)
• mkdir build && cd build
• cmake .. -G "NMake Makefiles" -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=C:\kderoot; -DCMAKE_PREFIX_PATH=C:\Qt\5.15.2\msvc2019_64
• nmake install

Building karchive

• git clone kArchive https://github.com/KDE/karchive.git
• download Zlib from http://www.winimage.com/zLibDll/zlib123dllx64.zip in path-to-karchive\zlib\lib folder
• download https://zlib.net/zlib-1.2.12.tar.xz and put all headers in path-to-karchive\zlib\include folder
• In kArchive directory: mkdir build && cd build
• use (x64 Native Tools Command Prompt for VS 2019)
• cmake .. -G “NMake Makefiles” -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=C:\kderoot -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=release -DCMAKE_PREFIX_PATH=C:\kderoot;C:\Qt\5.15.2\msvc2019_64;C:\Nextcloud\tools\karchive\karchive\karchive\zlib
• nmake install

Any idea on how to fix karchive issue ?

Best

Start with build.bat and C:/Nextcloud/client-building/desktop/CMakeLists.txt, then inspect src/gui/CMakeLists.txt and the referenced CMakeOutput.log and CMakeError.log. Reproduce the Windows 10 Qt 5.15.2 build and determine why KF5Archive is rejected; done means the documented prerequisites and build steps produce a successful desktop Release Win32 build.