[Development] CMake && QtCreator cross-compilation for ARM fails

Kevin Kofler kevin.kofler at chello.at
Sat Dec 15 00:43:13 CET 2018


Maximilian Hrabowski wrote:
> - the cmake syntax is more difficult to learn and to read and there was
> seen no improvement to the qmake syntax

The advantages of CMake vs. QMake are not in the syntax, but in the 
expressiveness. There are lots of things you just cannot do with QMake. It 
is barely enough for Qt itself, but only because Qt has a "configure" 
wrapper and because it simply added custom hardcoded commands to QMake 
itself where it needed them (e.g., for .pc file generation).

This does not apply for CMake vs. QBS though, the differences are of a 
different nature there.

        Kevin Kofler




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