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Build engineering

Do you have one-click-builds for your whole project? That’s a good question (so good that you should ask it before you get employed), but if the answer is no, chances are high that your team has not dedicated enough time … Continue reading

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Building Qt — fast

For building Qt, you typically have to reserve an hour or so. There’s a much faster way to build it though (besides the optimisations I already described) — build it using jom. Jom is a multi-threaded nmake replacement. The only … Continue reading

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Using CMake to build a Qt application

CMake is a really great build tool, and it makes it very easy to use a lot of libraries with it. For example, CMake has a built-in module that helps you to set up a Qt project. Unfortunately, it’s a … Continue reading

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Updated Qt build instructions

I’ve updated my post on building Qt, adding how to skip examples and demo generation. I’ve tested it recently, and adding -nomake examples -nomake demos to configure really works. Thanks to Michael for this nice tip!

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