[Qt-creator] Building Qt 4.5.2 with MSVC 2008 For Use With Qt Creator - Observations

[Karsten Heimrich]

Hi,

ext Robert Caldecott schrieb:
> Because of gdb problems with Qt Creator 1.2 I decided to build Qt with
> MSVC 2008 so I could use CDB and enjoy the benefits of smaller Qt DLLs
> and EXEs.  Here are my observations on the process.  Note that I
> already have a 'normal' installation of Qt/Qt Creator in c:\qt\2009.03
> so I don't need to rebuild any of the Qt tools or examples.
> 
> 1.  I downloaded the full SDK and installed it into c:\qt\4.5.2-vc.  I
> fired up the VS2008 Command Prompt and entered 'configure -platform
> win32-msvc2008' followed by 'nmake'.  First problem - 8 or 9 linker
> errors when building the QtWebKitD.dll.  The solution is the remove
> the following files:
> 
>     src/3rdparty/webkit/WebCore/tmp/moc/{debug,release}_shared/mocinclude.tmp
> 
> The above files need to be removed from the next Qt installation.
> 
> 2.  There really needs to be a way to ignore examples/demos via
> configure, as building all of these takes a long time.  I wanted to
> end up with a bare bones Qt folder containing just the essentials and
> didn't count on all the examples being built.  It took nearly 3 hours
> on my machine!

from running configure.exe --help:

-fast    Configure Qt quickly by generating Makefiles only
          for library and subdirectory targets. All other
          Makefiles are created as wrappers which will in
          turn run qmake

and then a cd into src would have saved you maybe 1.5 hours.


One can also run:
configure -nomake demos -nomake example


-- Karsten