Hi, I have a small bit of issue with the functionality of the buildsystem. Let me explain it in details. I have for instance a Qt5 Add-on module for which I would like to support qt4 as well. I have for instance solved the issues code-wise, but I am facing some build system issues as well. I would like to ask for help about this.
The situation is that it is not recommended for Qt5 add-on modules according to the relevant wikipage to create a $projectroot/include folder with the pre-generated "raw" and "forward" header files. Luckily enough, I do not need to install private header files in case Qt4 since the Qt4 project does not do that either, and this is feasible for me. I am about to install (copy) the header files from $projectroot/src/ to $projectroot/include/modulename/, but I do not seem to find a simple option for that. It is automatically done in the Qt5 project itself by the syncqt util. I have tried to clone the Qt4 repository for getting the syncqt tool, but it is not that supported like in case Qt5. In addition, I have had many issues with it. Also, I consider it somewhat broken workflow as well, if developers need to clone the Qt4 repository for copying files from folder A to folder B on the fly. I have tried to dig myself into this and other google results, but did not work for me: http://www.qtcentre.org/threads/2059-Installing-collecting-library-header-files-with-qmake I have the same issue like the person here, as in: I would not like to break the build process for subfolders like tests, examples and demos, if I run the build like "make" on Linux in the project root. I have then tried to use the "QMAKE_EXTRA_TARGETS" variable, but I got no $projectroot/include/modulename folder at all after qmake and make processes. I am not enthusiast about getting answer like copy the whole bunch of syncqt beast for a "simple copy". Yes, there are many customers involved ours who will have been Qt4 for years, still. I would not like to reinvent the wheel by rewriting a Qt5 Add-on, not even maintaining two separate projects after a fork. I am now trying to ask differently: Either 1) What is way of doing copy in the same "make" process without an explicite "make install" execution. or 2) Is it possible to set up the environment in case Qt4 to think that src/qt4support/include is the include directory and handle accordingly and conditionally ? I am a bit unhappy so that I was able to manage the support in the codebase fairly fast, but the build system seems to be a trouble so far. :/ I hope there is a fix around I can accomplish. I would be personally happy, if I can just "copy" the header files without even creating forward header files for the time being as the first step. Thank you in advance! Best Regards, Laszlo Papp _______________________________________________ Development mailing list [email protected] http://lists.qt-project.org/mailman/listinfo/development
