Re: [jamboost] Using Qt's moc in BBv2

From: Pedro Ferreira (pedro.ferreira_at_[hidden])
Date: 2003-09-19 04:00:02

Hi Volodya,

> Pedro Ferreira wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > can someone please tell me how to use the moc compiler.
> >
> > What should I add to the sources? Looking at qt.jam, line 51, I'd expect
to
> > add a .h file, but that won't work.
>
> That's really strange. When I go to examples-v2/qt and run "bjam", I get:
>
> gcc.compile.c++ bin/gcc/debug/threading-multi/main-target-t7/main.o
> gcc.compile.c++ bin/gcc/debug/threading-multi/main-target-t7/lcdrange.o
> qt.moc bin/gcc/debug/threading-multi/main-target-t7/moc_lcdrange.cpp
> gcc.compile.c++
bin/gcc/debug/threading-multi/main-target-t7/moc_lcdrange.o
> gcc.link bin/gcc/debug/threading-multi/main-target-t7/t7
>
> As you see, the 'h' file is mocced and moc's output is compiled. Could you
try
> that example? It will allow us to differentiate to problem specific to
your
> installation and problem specific to your Jamfile.
>
> As a quick check: are you use you have <library>qt in requirements? That
will
> enable the moc generator.

That's the rub...

Since we were building a static lib, I didn't want to link with qt, so I
removed the <library>qt and added a <include>path-to-qt.
That, of course, didn't inherit <allow>qt...

That reminds me of another issue that I have run into a few times before but
I'll post that separately.

Many thanks,

Pedro