Awesome news! Any ideas/plans for WebAssembly? On 06.06.19 13:45, Simon Hausmann wrote: > Hi, > > In the past months we, some developers from the Qt Company and KDAB, > have made good progress on the port of Qt to use CMake as build tool. > Since the initial prototype, the port has advanced very well and its > current state can be summarized roughly like this: > > * Builds on > * Windows (desktop) > * macOS > * Linux (desktop and embedded) > * Android (running not tested yet) > > * Static builds and plugins are implemented. > > * Many examples and tests are compiling and running. > > * Several modules outside of qtbase have been ported as well, > including qtsvg, qtimageformats, qnetworkauth as well as parts of > qtdeclarative. > > * There are early-warning style CI builds (no tests) running and > reporting results to patches uploaded to Gerrit. > > * There is tooling in-place to re-generate cmake files from > .pro/configure.json files, providing a method of dealing with the > long term maintenance of merging from qmake based Qt (5) branches. > > * Very basic support for compiling applications (not modules) with qmake > against a CMake built Qt. > > Many of the more fine-grained details are tracked in JIRA under an Epic: > > https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/QTBUG-73351 > > as well as in the Qt Project Wiki at > > https://wiki.qt.io/CMake_Port > > Detailed steps on how to build Qt with CMake are available at > > https://code.qt.io/cgit/qt/qtbase.git/tree/cmake/README.md?h=wip/cmake > > There are some caveats with the above as well, but overall we feel confident > about it. Therefore we would like to propose CMake as the build tool for > Qt 6 > and would like to achieve a decision within the Qt project by lazy > consensus. > > For the decision making it is important to also lay out the proposed path > forward. We would like to merge the wip/cmake branch(es) into the wip/qt6 > branch of qtbase and other applicable repositories. This would pave the way > for a transition that could look like this: > > (1) The CMake build system related files and scripts become visible > to Qt 6 development. Both build systems co-exist. > > (2) The wip/qt6 branches continue to be built using qmake in the CI > until we are ready to switch. > > (3) When the corresponding changes in Coin and qtbase are ready, a > new configuration file in qtbase would switch the qtbase build over > to use cmake for some configurations. > > (4) Through iteration all configurations are changed to use cmake. > > (5) The .pro/.pri files of projects can be removed -- the qmake > sources themselves as well as mkspecs/features (and potentially > other files) remain. > > > We are looking forward to a productive discussion and feedback. > > > Simon > > _______________________________________________ > Development mailing list > Development@qt-project.org > https://lists.qt-project.org/listinfo/development >
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