[Qt-interest] Debug and release modes ?

[Patric]

Hm, I see.
But why I'm not getting the QtCore4.d.dll in Windows ? What's the reason, 
isn't this important feature ?
I'm using Windows and I have installed QT from the SDK provided on the site.
It seems to me that if I'm working on Windows, in this case, the debug mode 
is redundant. Am I right ?

Regards,
Patric



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ferenc Stelcz" <ferenc at stelcz.hu>
To: <qt-interest at trolltech.com>
Sent: Tuesday, June 02, 2009 8:33 AM
Subject: Re: [Qt-interest] Debug and release modes ?


> Patric wrote:
>>  Hello,
>>   I have a very basic question. What's the difference between debug and 
>> release modes in QT Creator ? I think debug is to compile while in 
>> development
>>   process, and release is to compile the final product or something ?
>>
>
> It's pretty much like that. Debug builds are to be used with a debugger, 
> like
> the GDB in QtCreator to debug your application in the testing phase. This
> produces larger binaries with lots of debug symbols to help you find bugs 
> in
> your code. If you think your app is RTM :) then you simply compile it in
> release mode, with a smaller size and without debug symbols.
> Note however: when building in debug mode, you have to provide your
> environment with the appropriate debug build of Qt as well (for example
> QtCore4.dll is the release version and QtCore4d.dll is the debug version 
> [note
> the d before the dot]) On Windows platforms, using the Qt SDK installer, 
> you
> don't get the debug version of Qt; keep that in mind! HTH
>
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