[Qt-interest] [Interest] Debugging on Linux
Bill Crocker
william.crocker at analog.com
Wed Nov 2 18:18:05 CET 2011
>
> IMO, it's better to have a -debug build of Qt for development. In some
> cases, a debug Qt gave me runtime warnings about wrong code in my apps
> (it would tell me for example that I was using QPainter in a wrong way.)
> The -release version didn't do that.
>
> The way I've set this up, is to simply build and install Qt twice with
> different target directories. Then I use the appropriate qmake binary.
> For developing, I use the qmake from the debug build. For building a
> release binary, I use qmake from the release build from Qt.
Me too, and use of a debug version is essential during
test because of the built-in assertions which are enabled.
Bill
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