[Development] Build system for Qt 6

[Cristian Adam]

On Tue, Oct 30, 2018 at 12:42 PM Cristian Adam <cristian.adam at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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.
>

And here is the link with the nightly builds that run on the CMake code
base:
https://open.cdash.org/index.php?project=CMake&date=2018-10-29#!/%23Nightly_Expected

There are quite some platform combinations there. QNX is not there because
of licensing I suppose.

Cheers,
Cristian.
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