Merge pull request #546 from DieterMayerOSS/fix/qt5-guiprivate-component

Request the GuiPrivate component only on Qt6

CMakeLists.txt

@@ -78,6 +78,14 @@ find_package(
     ${QET_COMPONENTS}
     REQUIRED)
 
+# Qt6 only creates the Qt::GuiPrivate target (used for QPdfEngine::drawHyperlink)
+# when the GuiPrivate component is explicitly requested. Qt5 has no such
+# component package and creates the target implicitly with Gui, so only
+# request it on Qt6 - requesting it on Qt5 fails the whole configure.
+if(QT_VERSION_MAJOR GREATER_EQUAL 6)
+    find_package(Qt${QT_VERSION_MAJOR} REQUIRED COMPONENTS GuiPrivate)
+endif()
+
 find_package(SQLite3 REQUIRED)
 
 set(CMAKE_AUTOUIC_SEARCH_PATHS ${QET_DIR}/sources/ui)

cmake/qet_compilation_vars.cmake

@@ -16,6 +16,13 @@
 
 message(" - qet_compilation_vars")
 
+# Note: GuiPrivate is intentionally NOT in this list. Qt6's CMake config only
+# creates the Qt::GuiPrivate target when "GuiPrivate" is explicitly requested
+# as a component, but Qt5 has no Qt5GuiPrivate package at all (the target is
+# created implicitly with Gui), so requesting it as a component breaks the
+# whole Qt5 configure. It is requested separately, guarded by
+# QT_VERSION_MAJOR, after the main find_package.
+# (Needed for QPdfEngine::drawHyperlink, the PDF internal links.)
 set(QET_COMPONENTS
   LinguistTools
   PrintSupport
@@ -24,11 +31,7 @@ set(QET_COMPONENTS
   Sql
   Network
   Widgets
-  Concurrent
-  GuiPrivate) # Qt6 CMake config only creates the Qt::GuiPrivate target when
-              # "GuiPrivate" is explicitly requested as a component (unlike
-              # Qt5, which created it implicitly via Gui/PrintSupport/Widgets).
-              # Required for QPdfEngine::drawHyperlink (PDF internal links).
+  Concurrent)
 
 set(QET_PRIVATE_LIBRARIES
   Qt::PrintSupport

tests/catch/CMakeLists.txt

@@ -59,6 +59,13 @@ find_package(
  ${QET_COMPONENTS}
  REQUIRED)
 
+# Qt6-only: the tests link ${QET_PRIVATE_LIBRARIES}, which contains
+# Qt::GuiPrivate; Qt6 only creates that target when the component is
+# explicitly requested (Qt5 creates it implicitly and has no such package).
+if(QT_VERSION_MAJOR GREATER_EQUAL 6)
+  find_package(Qt${QT_VERSION_MAJOR} REQUIRED COMPONENTS GuiPrivate)
+endif()
+
 Include(FetchContent)
 
 FetchContent_Declare(