[CMake] QTCreator project to VS2008 problems

John Drescher drescherjm at gmail.com
Fri Mar 19 09:40:57 EDT 2010


>> 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.
>

I can say that this works. I mean most of my cmake based Qt projects I
develop on Visual Studio work on linux without much difficulty. There
are some compiler and linker differences that I had to take care of
though.

John


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