[Development] moc output from non-local tool build

Joerg Bornemann joerg.bornemann at qt.io
Mon Nov 15 14:52:46 CET 2021


On 11/10/21 4:26 PM, Thiago Macieira wrote:

> Considering tools aren't going to be bootstrapped any more, the host build of
> the tools might be quite complete. It needs to include at least every library
> that the tools depend on. So for example it will need to go all the way to
> qttools to build QtHelp so qhelpgenerator may link to it. I don't know if
> there's something that we can do in the CMake side to enable only those
> targets by default, but the difference might actually be so small that it's
> not worth maintaining.

There's already a target called host_tools to build the necessary tools.
An install target/component for it is missing though, see QTBUG-91243.


BR,

Joerg


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