[Qt-interest] which build tools to use?

[Stephen Collyer]

2009/12/5 Gordon Schumacher <gordon at rebit.com>

>
> Unfortunately, my present opinion is that *all* the currently
> available build tools suffer from one or more major shortcoming (and
> please note "major" in that sentence).  That said, CMake is IMHO the
> lesser evil at present for building Qt or portable C++ projects.  Its
> syntax is inconsistent and its documentation is sorely lacking in some
> places... but it (mostly) knows how to handle Qt4 projects out of the
> box, and you're not likely to run into the major issues unless you're
> trying to do something especially unusual or complex.
>

I would agree strongly with this. CMake is probably the best option
available at the moment for cross-platform building, but it's complex and
the documentation is dismal at best, and non-existent at worst (did anyone
ever document CPack, for example ? Last time I looked there was next to
nothing).

In addition, although CMake in principle supports the locating of 3rd party
libraries via module files, these tend to lag new releases of software, and
I've found that I've had to do painful hacking on various platforms to get
them to work (FindBoost.cmake, I'm looking at you ...).

It's a pity because CMake is such a promising product that I'd probably pay
money for a decently productised version.

-- 
Stephen Collyer
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