[Qt5-feedback] Qt5's qmake

Andre Somers andre at familiesomers.nl
Thu May 12 18:12:22 CEST 2011


Op Do, 12 mei, 2011 5:29 pm, schreef Keith Gardner:
> I would also like to see a new tool written from the ground up.  One thing
> I would like to see in a new tool that could be borrowed from CMake is a
> find library mechanism.  I like CMake's way of doing a platform dependent
> search for libraries and having the results given in a platform
> independent way in the form of variables.
>
> An example is to search for Boost on a machine with all of its compile
> options.  It can be difficult on Windows when there are compiler options
> as well as build options that are used to make the library file name.

Not that I know much about make-files and their problems, but to me it
seems like Qt could learn from its experiences with QML in building
something declarative-yet-scriptable for building Qt apps.

André






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