Bluetooth / BLE failing with Shearwater Petrel 2 on mobile and desktop

[Miika Turkia]

On Wed, Aug 23, 2017 at 12:55 PM, Rick Walsh <rickmwalsh at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On 23 Aug. 2017 19:21, "Anton Lundin" <glance at acc.umu.se> wrote:
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> On 23 August, 2017 - Rick Walsh wrote:
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>> Hi,
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>> Downloading to my desktop (v4.6.4-737-g5de49401c89c, built with Qt5.7.1 on
>> Fedora 26) also fails now.
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>> Does anyone have any clue how to fix this?
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> I don't know if 5.7.1 is modern enough for BT LE stuff on bluez. There's
> a "// HACK ALERT! Qt 5.9 needs this for proper Bluez operation" and such
> which points one towards a modern Qt.
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> Test with a newer Qt. Newer is better? What could possibly go wrong?
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> I tried that today. Downloaded qt5.9.1, and used ccmake in subsurface/build
> to point to the right qt directories. But the build fails because it doesn't
> have webkit. Is there some trick to make it work?
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> I downloaded dives succesfully on Windows 7 with the latest binary.

ccmake one more time, and switch to webengine

miika