[CMake] QTCreator project to VS2008 problems

[Michael Jackson]

On Mar 19, 2010, at 9:21 AM, Oli Glaser wrote:

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> ----- Original Message ----- From: "John Drescher" <drescherjm at gmail.com 
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> To: "Oli Glaser" <oli at glasers.org>; "CMake mailing list" <cmake at cmake.org 
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> Sent: Friday, March 19, 2010 1:09 PM
> Subject: Re: [CMake] QTCreator project to VS2008 problems
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>>> Thanks for the reply - I added mainwindow.h to the automoc but I  
>>> get the
>>> same thing - I thought it might be the QMetaobject header or  
>>> library it was
>>> looking for, looking at the the error messages, but I checked and  
>>> the header
>>> is there, and the search paths are correct. I built the QTProject  
>>> with a
>>> mingw compiled version of QTCreator - this wouldn't matter would it?
>>>
>>
>> No part of Qt or any other library can be built with a different
>> compiler for this to work. You must build all code with the same
>> compiler (even service packs can cause problems).
>>
>> John
>
> I may have worded that badly, so just to clarify - the QT I am using  
> to create the VS2008 project (the one used with cmake) was compiled  
> with VS2008, it's just the original code that was created in a mingw  
> compiled QTCreator. I thought the point of cmake is to enable  
> porting code from one platform to another - or have I misunderstood  
> completely?
>
> Oli

CMake will generate a "build system" for your project on lots of  
different platforms. Whether your code actually compiles on those  
systems is up to you.

Mike Jackson