[Development] Build system for Qt 6

[Cristian Adam]

On Tue, Oct 30, 2018, 12:24 Christian Gagneraud <chgans at gmail.com> wrote:

> > > On 30 Oct 2018, at 05:00, Christian Gagneraud <chgans at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > > - Any track record that Qbs was not fit for the job? (Please no "we
> > > can't build Qt with it", as you cannot build Qt with anything but
> > > qmake right now)
> >
> > No, of course one could have made it support building Qt. There were
> some missing items like the configuration system and some other things, all
> of those could of course have been implemented.
>
> How CMake will solve the 'configuration' problem. Will CMake allow us
> to build for, say, QNX, GreenHill, VxWorks, and the likes? I doubt!
> Everyone is bragging about open source (me first), but the Qt market
> is medical, automotive and avionics/space industry, isn't it? How will
> CMake cope with that?
> CMake is not even aware that they are other OS behind WIndows and
> Linux Desktop....
>

CMake is used in Automotive.

Here is a link to the blog of one of the QNX's Eclipse CDT contributors,
and there you can see how hard it is to write a CMake toolchain file for
QNX: https://cdtdoug.ca/2017/10/06/qnx-cmake-toolchain-file.html

Cheers,
Cristian.

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