Configuration options for QMake project

[Ian Reinhart Geiser]

On Sunday 30 July 2006 14:12, Andreas Pakulat wrote:
> On 30.07.06 10:19:39, Ian Reinhart Geiser wrote:
> > On Saturday 29 July 2006 09:46, Andreas Pakulat wrote:
> > > On 29.07.06 08:14:55, Matt Rogers wrote:
> > > > On Friday 28 July 2006 18:39, Andreas Pakulat wrote:
> > > > > Hi,
> > > > >
> > > > > before making to many changes on my own, I'd like to know about a
> > > > > couple of things:
> > > > >
> > > > > 1. The current configuration dialog supports the setting of
> > > > > "console" for the CONFIG variable, however this has only an effect
> > > > > on win32 so I think this should be removed
> > > >
> > > > Remember that Qt is cross platform. You can develop on Linux for
> > > > windows. We'll need to keep this option IMHO.
> > >
> > > Ok, that does make sense. What about the windows option? Should I add
> > > it?
> > >
> > > > > 2. The "Build as DLL" and the "Shared" option are duplicates, i.e.
> > > > > If choosing "shared library" this adds the "dll" keyword to CONFIG,
> > > > > and "Build as DLL" does the same, so I think the "Build as DLL"
> > > > > option should be removed.
> > > >
> > > > I think it should be renamed to 'Build as Shared Library'.
> > >
> > > Huh? Why do you want to keep the duplicate option? As I said, they both
> > > activate the same option for the CONFIG variable, so I don't really see
> > > a reason for keeping both.
> >
> > Remember that you can use mingw32 to build Windows applications from
> > KDevelop. Even then at least at my company we do our development on Linux
> > and Integration on OSX, Win32.
>
> Do you reference the console-Option or the build-as-shared/dll Option?
> For the first one: I added console again.
Yes I use the console. Thanks /me grumbles about unittest console output on 
win32....
> For the second one: As I already tried to explain, both ui-options are
> "translated" to the same CONFIG variable and thus they are duplicates of
> each other. That's why I removed one.
Yeah that one doesn't make sense so it can go.  

I just wanted to pipe in my 2c here, because I use KDevelop for Qt3 win32 
development still.  I'm hopeful for Qt4, but I have not gotten the configure 
script for mingw32 ported over yet.

Cheers
	-ian reinhart geiser