[Development] Build system for Qt 6

[Kyle Edwards]

On Fri, 2018-12-07 at 21:48 +0100, Christian Ehrlicher wrote:
> One really nice feature what I miss in cmake is the '-project'
> option 
> from qmake. Basically it scans the current directory, adds all
> sources, 
> headers and ui-files and creates a small .pro file out of it. It's a 
> very convenient feature when you just want to compile a small test 
> project. Creating an initial CMakeLists.txt from scratch takes much 
> longer and therefore this is the only place where I use qmake
> (outside 
> the qt sources)
> Maybe this can be added - simply read the current directory and pass
> the 
> files found to a template CMakeLists.txt to create the project type
> you 
> want - I assume not all ant to get a Qt project when such a feature 
> would be added to cmake... :)

Sounds like a nice idea! Would certainly help beginners get up and
running quickly.

Does qmake figure out which libraries you're using, etc. or does it
just generate a barebones file that you have to fix up yourself if you
want to add external dependencies?

Kyle