[Qt-creator] Building non-qt programs

[Daniel Molkentin]

ext Andree Guenther wrote:
> Hi everyone!
>
> It seems that it is not possible to build programs that are non-qt.
>   
That's not strictly true. It requires qmake, though.
> Is suppose that this is intended, but i think its a bad idea because i 
> need another ide for parts of the
> program that have nothing to do with qt.
>   
It's not intention, it was simply most important for us to have Qt 
application development using qmake first. There are ongoing efforts to 
support other buildsystems like CMake and alike. Plain Makefiles could 
be supported in the future, but there are not intentions to implement it 
at this point.

> (in my case its a network-application with the server-side on an 
> embedded system with minimal libs needed)
>   
Why not use qmake anyway? If you specify

QT -= core

there should be no remains of Qt, but you get the simplicity of the .pro 
syntax (unless you are using a different Makefile generator already)

> I cant find a way to use a cross-compile toolchain either - do i have to 
> use make for that?
>   
qmake is our solution for a cross compile chain, see 
http://doc.trolltech.com/4.4/qmake-manual.html

Cheers,
  Daniel

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Daniel Molkentin, Software Engineer, Nokia Qt Software
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