[Development] Notes on "Qt Build Systems" @ QtCon 2016

[Stephen Kelly]

On 06/09/16 02:13, Thiago Macieira wrote:
> Em segunda-feira, 5 de setembro de 2016, às 12:40:54 PDT, Stephen Kelly via
> Development escreveu:
>> I think something was lost in transit on this point. I don’t think it would
>> be a PITA to write a CMake buildsystem for Qt. I recall the above point was
>> in reference to ‘compiling host tools and using them in the build while
>> cross compiling’. The way CMake makes that possible currently(!) is
>> implemented separately to the core of CMake with the ExternalProject
>> module.
> That's how it should be. Every single project out there, except for Qt and
> possibly GCC itself, builds for one single target. Building something for one
> architecture so that it can be run to build another is ungainly and
> unexpected.
>
> Whenever you cross-compile Qt, you end up with tools that can only be run on
> the host. So Qt's cross-compilation mechanism can't be used to build tools
> that can be run on the target platform.
>

Yes, I have had problems with that in the past too. However, there's 
nothing preventing building the tools for both the host and the target. 
I think that would be cleaner (This is independent of buildsystem tool - 
I would also be happy if the current qmake build did this).

Thanks,

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