How do Qt app makefiles get created, when creating a new project?

[craig harris]

Thanks Andreas,..I appreciate the help!.  So when you say:

" ...KDevelop never creates Makefiles, it uses the build-system
for that. In case of Qt-Projects that is often qmake, so all KDevelop
does is run "qmake" on the top-level project dir.",..

 I'm assuming that there is no way to tell the build system what params to 
pass to  Qmake - i.e. the build system calls qmake with reasonable params, 
and I shouldn't have to worry about it. Correct? Or is there a way to tell 
the build system what params to pass to Qmake?

-Craig




----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Andreas Pakulat" <apaku at gmx.de>
To: <kdevelop at barney.cs.uni-potsdam.de>
Sent: Thursday, November 16, 2006 12:48 AM
Subject: Re: How do Qt app makefiles get created, when creating a new 
project?


> On 15.11.06 22:45:04, craig harris wrote:
>> How do you port a Qt 4.1.2 app to Qt 4.2.1?
>
> There shouldn't be much porting involved here.
>
>> The way qt projects get made is mysterious to me.  And I'm having 
>> difficulty digging up any documentation.
>
> http://doc.trolltech.com/4.2/
>
> is pretty extensive.
>
>>  I'm guessing that since my path has qt 4.1.2 in it, when I create a new 
>> project of type "Qt Application", Kdevelop somehow knows how to build a 
>> qt makefile.
>
>>
>> So when I upgrade to Qt 4.2.1, I'm guessing that I just change my path to 
>> include qt 4.2.1 instead of 4.1.2.  Will this work?
>
> For KDevelop3.3 yes, that should work. You have to do a qmake run, by
> right-clicking on the top-level project item in the qmake manager and
> then all is fine.
>
>>  IS there any other more articulate way to understand how kdevelop is 
>> building the qt makefile?
>
> As said above, KDevelop doesn't do it. It just runs the qmake that is in
> first PATH. The documentation for qmake is included in the Qt
> documentation.
>
> Andreas
>
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