Installing qmake

This means that qmake will link against the Qt libraries when linking and add in the neccesary include paths for compiling. During development, programmers may prefer to replace release with debug , which is discussed later. Project files are plain text i. This works in the same way as scopes do.

Simply replace the scope condition with the function. A check for a file called main. That is, exists main. Use qmake as before to generate a makefile. If you rename main. Suppose you use Windows and you want to be able to see statement output with qDebug when you run your application on the command line.

To see the output, you must build your application with the appropriate console setting. This requires using two nested scopes. First create one scope, then create the other inside it. Put the settings to be processed inside the second scope, like this:. That's it! You have now completed the tutorial for qmake, and are ready to write project files for your development projects.

Documentation contributions included herein are the copyrights of their respective owners. Qt and respective logos are trademarks of The Qt Company Ltd. All other trademarks are property of their respective owners. Using Precompiled Headers Reference. You can set a property in qmake as follows:. This information will be saved into a QSettings object meaning it will be stored in different places for different platforms. The standard Qt distribution comes with many of these files, located in the mkspecs subdirectory of the Qt installation.

The cache file is a special file qmake reads to find settings not specified in the qmake. When qmake is run, it looks for a file called.