[Qt-interest] Qt 4.4, Snow Leopard & QMAKE_COMP_QMAKE_OBJECTIVE_CFLAGS

[Brad Howes]

On Sep 3, 2009, at 4:46 PM, Dave Thorup wrote:

> The problem is that Snow Leopard (Mac OS X 10.6) changes the default
> gcc version to be 4.2, but you can't use gcc 4.2 to build applications
> that target Mac OS X 10.4.  So when building Qt 4.4.3 under Snow
> Leopard I can set the CC & CXX environment variables to gcc-4.0 & g+
> +-4.0 respectively and this lets me build Qt with gcc 4.0.  I also
> need to set the Mac SDK to 10.4 to properly target it.  Here is my Qt
> configure command:

Can you even make Qt 4.4.3 run under Snow Leopard? I may be mistaken,  
but I think Snow Leopard requires a Cocoa, not Carbon, backend. I've  
compiled the latest Qt source (to be 4.6 sometime) under Snow Leopard  
and all works fine (almost).

I could be wrong on this though.

Brad

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