build questions

[ftc2]

first of all – pretty cool script. thanks a lot.

i have some questions. i'm running this right now:

docker run -it -w /root -v $HOME/qbt:/root alpine:edge /bin/ash -c 'apk update && apk add bash curl && curl -sL git.io/qbstatic | \ 
bash -s all --qbittorrent-master --optimize --icu'

basically i want a musl bin for qbittorrent for an unreleased feature that's out in master that i'm very eager to try. hopefully i don't need master of libtorrent too for best results.

after reading --help and https://userdocs.github.io/qbittorrent-nox-static/#/script-installation?id=docker-via-ssh

--optimize is clear. i get that it's not good if i distribute it or use it on a different computer, but otherwise it sounds good.

i wasn't sure what --icu really does. i get that it's some lib for char conversion and it bulks up the bin size quite a bit, but i don't really understand what the real world consequence is. in what way might it affect performance or behavior?

also, do i need --cmake? i'm using it headless only. only using the webui and other things that use its api. i saw the hint about qt6. i'm not even using qt, right?

thanks

[userdocs]

ICU is the proper, preferred dependency of QT. It's not a qbittorrent dependency. There was a bug before that needed ICU to resolve but I think its's fixed now. If binary size is an issue you can safely not use ICU otherwise just leave this default.

cmake is required to build QT6 and optionally other items. The current qbittorrent project is defaulted to: Qt6 + Libtorrent v1.2

They provide 4 builds in total, similar to what this script is capable to outputting.

As you see when you run the script these are the build defaults

So if you don't care about using Qt6 then just use the -qm flag and optionally disable ICU and you are good to go.

If you want to use Qt6 it will default to using cmake for building most things.