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

[Oswald Buddenhagen]

On Wed, Jul 01, 2009 at 10:22:50AM +0100, Robert Caldecott wrote:
> > Well, that would make recompiling take another 3 hours. It's standard to leave
> > those object files there.
> 
> But I *should* only need to recompile when a new version of Qt is
> released.  Otherwise if you want both dynamic and static versions
> you're looking at a cool 9GB of disk space.  :)
>
that's perfectly expected. you don't want to recompile an entire module
after changing a single file.
if for some weird reason you want to compile qt yourself but still can't
affort the disk space, you can run "make clean" after building each
module (i *think* the clean targets created by qmake remove only the
intermediate files). that should be easily scriptable.