Hi Steve: If you remember my OP, I don't (yet) have access to Qt5 myself, but another PLplot developer does, and after I changed the Qt relevant part of our build system following the helpful advice I got on this list, he was able to refine my work so that PLplot now produces good "qt" PLplot device driver results for him with either Qt4 or Qt5.
We are very happy with those good build and run-time results for Qt5 that have been obtained by a combination of find_package, qt5_use_modules, and qt5_wrap_cpp. Furthermore, from the documentation at http://doc-snapshot.qt-project.org/qt5-stable/cmake-manual.html, it appears this combination should work OK for CMake version 2.8.9 (our minimum version) and above. But the implication of that documentation is that qt5_wrap_cpp is a rather dated approach (only mentioned in the 2.8.3 section of that documentation), and ultimately it would be better to use the AUTOMOC target property instead for the relevant targets. However, that approach only seems to be mentioned for CMake-2.8.11 section of the Qt5 CMake manual. Yet I double-checked the actual documentation at http://www.cmake.org/cmake/help/v2.8.9/cmake.html, and there does seem to be an AUTOMOC target property available for 2.8.9. So is that property for that version of CMake not suitable for working with Qt5 as implied by the Qt5 CMake manual or could we safely move to the AUTOMOC property approach even for our users that are still using 2.8.9? If the former is the case, then the part of the QT5 cmake manual devoted to 2.8.9 needs to mention qt5_wrap_cpp, and if the latter is the case that part of the manual needs to mention the AUTOMOC property. Of course, the question about qt5_wrap_cpp versus AUTOMOC property for CMake-2.8.9 become moot once we update our minimum CMake version to 2.8.11, but that may be as much as a year away. Alan __________________________ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Victoria (astrowww.phys.uvic.ca). Programming affiliations with the FreeEOS equation-of-state implementation for stellar interiors (freeeos.sf.net); the Time Ephemerides project (timeephem.sf.net); PLplot scientific plotting software package (plplot.sf.net); the libLASi project (unifont.org/lasi); the Loads of Linux Links project (loll.sf.net); and the Linux Brochure Project (lbproject.sf.net). __________________________ Linux-powered Science __________________________ -- Powered by www.kitware.com Please keep messages on-topic and check the CMake FAQ at: http://www.cmake.org/Wiki/CMake_FAQ Kitware offers various services to support the CMake community. For more information on each offering, please visit: CMake Support: http://cmake.org/cmake/help/support.html CMake Consulting: http://cmake.org/cmake/help/consulting.html CMake Training Courses: http://cmake.org/cmake/help/training.html Visit other Kitware open-source projects at http://www.kitware.com/opensource/opensource.html Follow this link to subscribe/unsubscribe: http://www.cmake.org/mailman/listinfo/cmake