[Development] Build system for Qt 6

[Christian Kandeler]

On Wed, 31 Oct 2018 10:44:43 +1300
Christian Gagneraud <chgans at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Wed, 31 Oct 2018 at 10:27, Thiago Macieira <thiago.macieira at intel.com> wrote:
> > On Tuesday, 30 October 2018 13:56:45 PDT NIkolai Marchenko wrote:
> > The only thing I'm criticising is that its proper chance involves Qt being the
> > guinea pig. Find someone else instead and grow your community. Get track
> > record for building, cross-compiling, working with weird set ups,
> > containerised build environments, build farms, etc. Don't ask Qt to switch to
> > it until you've done that work.  
> 
> !?!
> What make you think qbs cannot be used in such environments?That all
> very basic stuff to me.
> - cross-compiling: Qbs support *out of the box* all "standard" OS
> *and* "standard" toolchains.
> - working with weird set ups: what does that even mean? That a very
> vague statement.
> - containerised build: any build system can run in a container, that's
> orthogonal.
> - build farms: Against what is the problem with build farm, i don't get it.
> - etc: again, can you elaborate? that's very vague.
> 
> I've used Qbs to build a Desktop SW for Windows + MacOS + Linux, all
> producing platform specific installers.
> It was a breeze.
> I've used it to build a 1.5 million SLOC SW, with complex build
> matrix. The only reason we dropped it, was because of lack of
> integration:
> QtCreator is the only IDE that knows Qbs, as i reported on Qbs mailing
> long time ago, Qbs won't take off without XCode, Visual Stidio, Visual
> Code, Eclipse, ... integration.
> And, so far, we failed at switching to CMake, the build matrix is too complex.

So what *are* you using now? Just curious.


Christian