Bug#1121645: freecad: Build against qt6

[Tobias Frost]

On Thu, Jan 22, 2026 at 08:21:42PM +0100, Gregor Riepl wrote:
> > would it be possible to build against qt6?
> The upstream Flatpack is built on Qt6, so there doesn't seem to be any hard requirement to use Qt5: https://github.com/flathub/org.freecad.FreeCAD/blob/master/org.freecad.FreeCAD.yaml#L51
> 
> There's also a tag on the upstream bug tracker for Qt6 issues: https://github.com/FreeCAD/FreeCAD/issues?q=is%3Aissue%20state%3Aopen%20label%3A%223rd%20party%3A%20Qt%206%22
> While some issue may indicate that there are still some bugs, it doesn't look like using Qt6 is generally unadvisable.
> 
> A Qt6 build would be appreciated!

I'm going to follow upstream here. Once FreeCAD upstream switched to QT6,
I'll do the switch as well.

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tobi