[Qt-interest] [Interest] Debugging on Linux

[Joseph Crowell]

On 11/2/2011 5:55 AM, Thiago Macieira wrote:
> On Wednesday, 2 de November de 2011 10:27:02 Graham Labdon wrote:
>> Ok I'm a little confused now
>> I want to be able to build and debug a Qt application and the build a
>> release version.
>>
>> How should I build Qt - -debug, -release, or -debug-and-release
>> If I build Qt with debug how can I link to the release versions of the Qt
>> libraries?

I would suggest in your .pro file:
#Append_debugtoexecutablenamewhencompilingusingdebugconfig

CONFIG(debug,  debug|release):TARGET  =  $$join(TARGET,,,_debug)


> You probably want -release for Qt, unless you plan on debugging inside Qt
> itself.
>
> When building your application for debugging, you do what Andreas suggested.
> Note that Qt Creator automatically sets those options when you select a debug
> build.
>
> When you're ready for release, re-run qmake with no arguments and build again.
> Or let Creator do it.
>
>> I am unsure of the steps that I should be taking and would appreciate a
>> guiding hand
>
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