[Development] Proposing CMake as build tool for Qt 6

[Simon Hausmann]

Hi,

Regarding PCH, it seems that right now it would be easiest to include something like https://github.com/sakra/cotire . Patches are welcome to integrate this or alternatively work with upstream CMake for a built-in solution.

Regarding iOS/tvOS/watchOS, my understanding is that CMake upstream has landed basic support from a toolchain perspective and welcomes contributions to make it better. I understand that Alexandru has been playing with making a Qt build with it and supplying third-party libraries via vcpkg, but I think that's nothing beyond the scope of experiments. So similarly here, contributions are welcome :)

Those two aspects are also a driver for increasing the visiblity of the CMake port, in order to invite contributors to help. Yet I feel that they don't represent show-stoppers from a decision making point of view. I'm confident that if others in the C++ community are able to build apps for iOS with CMake, then we will also be able to build Qt for it.

Simon

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From: Bogdan Vatra <bogdan.vatra at kdab.com>
Sent: Thursday, June 6, 2019 15:13
To: development at qt-project.org
Cc: Simon Hausmann
Subject: Re: [Development] Proposing CMake as build tool for Qt 6

În ziua de joi, 6 iunie 2019, la 14:45:14 EEST, Simon Hausmann a scris:
> Hi,
>
> In the past months we, some developers from the Qt Company and KDAB,
> have made good progress on the port of Qt to use CMake as build tool.
> Since the initial prototype, the port has advanced very well and its
> current state can be summarized roughly like this:
>
>     * Builds on
>       * Windows (desktop)
>       * macOS
>       * Linux (desktop and embedded)
>       * Android (running not tested yet)
>

Any news about iOS/tvOS/watchOS and PCH?

Cheers,
BogDan.


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