[Development] Switch the main "Qt Build System"

Ville Voutilainen ville.voutilainen at gmail.com
Tue Jun 9 09:35:37 CEST 2020


On Tue, 9 Jun 2020 at 10:29, Shawn Rutledge <shawn.rutledge at qt.io> wrote:
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> FWIW the configuration mechanism seems a bit less friendly so far with all those -DSHOUTED options like -DFEATURE_developer_build=ON instead of configure -developer-build.  But there is cmake-gui, which generates checkboxes for all the options after you have run cmake the first time.  They are even searchable.  Is that a recommended way to discover the configure options?  (Too bad you have to run cmake twice then.)
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> There will be no use for running the old configure script anymore then, right?

Last I looked, the configure script can configure a cmake build; it
doesn't support all the options for cmake
that it supports for qmake, but configure -developer-build certainly
worked the last time I checked.


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