[Qt5-feedback] Build system requirements for Qt5

[Alexander Neundorf]

On Tuesday 07 June 2011, Thiago Macieira wrote:
> On Tuesday, 7 de June de 2011 08:16:03 Bill Hoffman wrote:
> > Agreed, it was a bit insane.  It would be really helpful if you could
> > post some pseudo code that showed the use case of win32 sources and some
> > sources that depend on some system introspection value. What does that
> > input look like, and how does it work?
> 
> I don't know. What I'm asking is: you guys who have more experience with
> build systems, can you figure out something that is both IDE-friendly and
> human- friendly?
> 
> The IDE needs to be able to get the file listing from any project, it needs
> to build any project, it needs to get the compiler options (especially the
> preprocessor options, -I and -D) for every single file file,

All this is trivial to do with cmake.

E.g. for the Eclipse CDT generator, it generates rules to build every single C 
file, to preprocess it only, to compile it to assembler, and it also puts the 
information about include dirs and definitions in the project file, so Eclipse 
can do correct highlighting.

Alex