[Qt-creator] Where is QTDIR defined on OSX?

Danny Price deepblue842 at googlemail.com
Fri Mar 2 01:08:03 CET 2012


Thanks for the responses guys but this still doesn't answer my question. In the scenario described, where is QTDIR coming from? 

On 1 Mar 2012, at 23:21, Lincoln Ramsay wrote:

> On 03/01/2012 06:14 PM, ext eike.ziller at nokia.com wrote:
>> Qt Creator injects it into the build environment.
>> I don't if it was necessary/useful with older Qt versions, but
>> nowadays it's definitely not used nor necessary on Mac.
> 
> It was officially removed with Qt 4.0. However, it sort-of hung around 
> in a few places but generally, it didn't matter if you set it or not (or 
> even if you set it wrong) because all the places that used it had it set 
> for them by the rest of the build system.
> 
> With 5.0, you need QTDIR set (and set correctly) when you run qmake on a 
> module because syncqt uses it to locate the qtbase module. Why qmake 
> can't supply the location of the qtbase module to syncqt is a mystery to me.
> 
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