[Development] Qt 6 buildsystem support requirements

[BogDan Vatra]

Hi,

qmake can't compile them all *at once* e.g. $ qmake && make will compile only one target at the time not all.

AFAIK QBS and iirc gn too, are the only few that have this cool feature.

Cheers,
BogDan.

On August 1, 2018 10:27:03 PM GMT+03:00, Thiago Macieira <thiago.macieira at intel.com> wrote:
>On Wednesday, 1 August 2018 11:58:02 PDT BogDan Vatra via Development
>wrote:
>> Hi,
>> 
>>   Did you knew that qbs can build all but windows targets at once
>from your
>> Linux machine? 
>
>That's not news. qmake can do that, provided you have the toolchains.
>You 
>could compile for Mac and MSVC too, if you had them (for MSVC, via
>Wine, like 
>godbolt.org).
>
>> Using mingw you can cross compile Qt for windows, but you
>> probably want to run tests and to check if the code compiles with
>msvc.
>> This feature might not seem pretty useful for linux, but is very
>useful for
>> Android where we can bundle multiple platforms in the same package.
>
>Agreed.
>
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