[Qt-interest] How do I use frameworks with qmake on the Mac?

[Oliver.Knoll at comit.ch]

On 2011-01-13 Nikos Nikos Chantziaras wrote:

> ...
> And then link with:
> 
>    LIBS += -lSDL_mixer -lSDL_sound #etc, etc.

Hmmm, the docs actually state that "The framework itself is linked in by appending the -framework options and the name of the framework to the LIBS variable":

LIBS += -framework TheFramework

So I am a bit surprised that it finds the libraries with just -lSLD_mixer etc.

Anyway, I have never linked against 3rd party Frameworks (except Qt off course), but against 3rd party libraries such as ImageMagick++ which I installed via "MacPorts". In these cases a simple:

 CONFIG += link_pkgconfig
 PKGCONFIG += sdl

(maybe sdl also provides package config files?)

will do everything needed (include paths, library paths). Works like a charm on Mac as well ;)

Cheers, Oliver
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