Tag Archives: qt
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
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
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!
Building Qt from source with Visual Studio
In case you do UI development, Qt 4.5 and later is now a very interesting alternative since it is licensed under the LGPL. However, if you use Visual Studio, you’ll find that there are no precompiled binaries, so you have … Continue reading