[Development] How to build and install only host_tools ?

[Volker Hilsheimer]

> On 19 Feb 2021, at 13:10, Bogdan Vatra via Development <development at qt-project.org> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
>  I'm trying to build and install *only* host_tools and reuse them for all my 
> cross platform compilation builds. I can build it with `ninja host_tools` but 
> I could not found any `host_tools_install` or `install_host_tools` targets, 
> and if I'm trying to install it with `ninja install` it will build and install 
> everything not only host_tools. 
> 
> Am I missing something? Or there is no way to build and install only 
> host_tools?
> 
> Cheers,
> BogDan.


Noticed the same just now. I don’t see any install targets for the host tools and the code doesn’t seem to add any for the individual tools (there’s no install_moc, for instance), so:

https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/QTBUG-91243

Cheers,
Volker