[Interest] Compile a debug build and link with release Qt

[Etienne Sandré-Chardonnal]

Hi Thiago,

I am using MinGW, but I link Qt statically. This perfectly makes sense! But
I forgot to mention it...

2017-01-10 16:31 GMT+01:00 Thiago Macieira <thiago.macieira at intel.com>:

> Em terça-feira, 10 de janeiro de 2017, às 14:22:45 PST, Etienne Sandré-
> Chardonnal escreveu:
> > Hi,
> >
> > What is the most simple way with QtCreator/qmake to set up a target for
> > debugging a project while linking with a release Qt ?
> >
> > I have a project which takes forever to link in debug mode, and the
> > executable is 600MB large. Since 95% of the time I am debugging code
> which
> > is not interacting with the Qt API, I do not need to debug through Qt
> code.
> >
> > The RELEASE qmake flag basically switches everything.
>
> I'm guessing you're talking about Windows, which has different and
> incompatible builds of debug and release libraries. Actually, that applies
> only to Visual Studio -- the MinGW DLLs are compatible with each other.
>
> But your question does not make sense. The linking time applies only to
> your
> own code. If you're debugging, you need to build your own code in debug
> mode
> and since the linking time is proportional to the size of your own
> codebase,
> it'll be as slow as it needs to be.
>
> --
> Thiago Macieira - thiago.macieira (AT) intel.com
>   Software Architect - Intel Open Source Technology Center
>
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