📅 2014-Oct-09 ⬩ ✍️ Ashwin Nanjappa ⬩ 🏷️ cmake, qt ⬩ 📚 Archive
Qt is a fantastic library, but it comes with a lot of dependencies. You typically need to use its IDE and compilation tools. If you are already working with standard tools for editing code and compiling, then this generates a huge disadvantage. If you are using CMake, it has support for compiling Qt programs. And hopefully this makes it a bit more easier to use Qt for you. 😊
Information on how to write a CMakeLists.txt to compile Qt can be found here. I have created a sample CMakeLists.txt that compiles a Qt program here:
# Check if Qt4 is present
find_package(Qt4 REQUIRED)
# Add Qt headers for compiling
include(
${QT_USE_FILE}
)
# Add Qt definitions for compilation
add_definitions(
${QT_DEFINITIONS}
)
# Your *.h files that need to be processed by MOC
qt4_wrap_cpp(
FOOBAR_HEADERS_MOC
FooForm.h
BarForm.h
)
# Your *.ui files
qt4_wrap_ui(
FOOBAR_HEADERS_UI
FooForm.ui
BarForm.ui
)
# Your *.qrc files
qt4_add_resources(
FOOBAR_HEADERS_QRC
Foo.qrc
Bar.qrc
)
# Add MOC, UI and QRC generated headers for compilation
add_executable(
foobar
main.cpp
star.cpp${FOOBAR_HEADERS_MOC}
${FOOBAR_HEADERS_UI}
${FOOBAR_HEADERS_QRC}
)
# Add Qt libraries for linking
target_link_libraries(
foobar${QT_LIBRARIES}
)
Tried with: Qt 4, CMake 2.8.12.2 and Ubuntu 14.04