[Interest] Is moc obsolete?

[Igor Mironchik]

Hi.

On 08.07.2015 21:26, Till Oliver Knoll wrote:
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>> Am 08.07.2015 um 08:57 schrieb Igor Mironchik <igor.mironchik at gmail.com>:
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>> Hi,
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>> Does anybody know if Qt plans to remove moc in the future releases, let's say in Qt 6?
> What's wrong with moc? :)
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> Seriously, while in the very beginning I was doubtful about an "additional build step that messes around with my source" moc never got into my way. Even with Visual Studio 6 and the corresponding Qt VS Addon back in the days one hardly noticed the presence of moc.
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> And all moc does is spit out some more C++ code, which - most importantly for me - I never get to see! So why would I care about moc?
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> Granted, initially moc did not take #defines and #ifdefs (mostly evil anyway) into account (IIRC moc now does some pre-processing on its own, or runs after the preprocess phase...), linker errors due to stale moc_* files occured (mostly due to different time stamps on network shares - "Try to compile in a minute! It'll work!") or "DLL export" issues then and when ("you need to DLL export the whole class that is going to be moc'ed - not just selected public/protected methods/symbols").
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> But from a practical standpoint - especially in combination with qmake/Qt Creator - IMHO moc does its job well: create a "meta system, signal/slot connections etc."
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> Or did I miss something?

With Qt 5.4.1 I had a problem with moc. One my QObject-derived class was 
declared in source file (.cpp) and this source file at the end included 
#include "source.moc". And what I had... When I run qmake and make from 
command prompt all was ok. But when I compiled from QtCreator 
compilation failed with: can't find "source.moc".

If moc will be in C++ reflection magic such problems will not be.