One post tagged with "qmake"

With most non-trivial Qt projects that I create, I like to include a pre-pre-build command in the qmake project file. I'll explain why as we go, but first off, let's look at what I mean by "pre-pre-build" (it is not at all a standard term).

The typical build process (as performed by make looks something like this:

1. For the given target, check if any of the target's dependencies have been updated since it was last (re)built.
   1. If no dependencies have changed, do nothing - we're done ;)
   2. If one or more dependencies have changed, then:
      1. Build each dependent target.
      2. Build this target.
      3. If appropriate, link this target with its dependencies.

That is, of course, a gross oversimplification... but it will do the purpose of this post.