Re: [Boost-build] [V2] [Qt4] Progress

From: Juergen Hunold (hunold_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-12-08 15:07:33

Hi ! 

On Thursday 08 December 2005 10:18, Jürgen Hunold wrote:
> Hi Alo !

> Okay, I'll try to put something together this evening.

And here it comes ;-))

I have:

qt4.diff
Adds support for "moc-only headers" by simply copying the mechanism for 
moccing .cpp files via "cast.jam".
Changes the name of moc.cpp action to "moc.inc" because it is now used 
for both use cases.

qt4-jam.tar.bz2
Build-System for Qt4, testet for Debian Unstable/gcc-4.0.2
Requires configured qt-snapshot 4.1.0 (2005-11-30) and the tools 
(moc,uic,rcc)
Building them on demand (like quickbook) should not be too difficult, 
but figuring the platform settings out of the .pro file is too much 
work right now.
I hope I got the platform dependent stuff right now. And the QT_MAKEDLL 
for win32 ;-))

libx.tar.bz2
Simple external test for building a small qt4 based library.
Show all hacks needed.

libx.txt 
Shows what happens when building libx.
Unfortunately, the targets created by cast.jam are not marked explicit, 
so they show up here. 
I think this bug show up when usig pch.jam, too.
I hope it will be fixed soon.

Other caveats:
I can't get cast.jam to work inside of Boost.Test run (see 
examples/qtestlib/tutorial[1-3] ). I'd like to run QTestLib based tests 
with the Boost.Test routine, but QTestLib requieres the .cpp containing 
the test to be moc'ed and included and I can't get this to work.

Plugins:
I've tested mysql (with /usr/include/mysql Standard-Installation) and 
sqlite (with Qt's 3rdparty) sources and set up a simple selection 
mechanism to select plugin, builtin or none.
Unfortunately, this creates a myriad of different build-variants. 

In general, the moc support is very uncomfortable.
I'd like to have some "meta-generator" which checks all .h and .cpp 
files for the (in)famous Q_OBJECT makro and then automagically does the 
right thing, just like qmake. But I don't have the knowledge to hack 
this ...

Any other comments and more tests are welcome.

Yours,

Jürgen

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