[Qt-interest] C Code with QMake

[Jeffery MacEachern]

On Sat, Aug 7, 2010 at 18:34, Thiago Macieira <thiago at kde.org> wrote:
> On Saturday 7. August 2010 22.06.45 Jeffery MacEachern wrote:
>> Part of the project I'm working on is a library written in C, which I
>> am building with QMake as I do the rest of the project, just for the
>> sake of simplicity.  I'm using an Arch Linux system with GCC.  QMake
>> compiles all of the C source files with gcc, but then links them
>> together using g++, unnecessarily pulling in libstdc++ as a dependency
>> in the process.  Is this something I'm doing wrong, or is it a bug?
>
> Neither. QMake doesn't know the difference. It simply assumes that linking must
> be done with the C++ linker.

Is it simply relying on the .c extension to determine that it should
use gcc for compiling the source, then?

> Try adding this to your .pro file:
>
> QMAKE_LINK = $$QMAKE_LINK_C

That works, thanks!
>
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