Examples are intended to show how to build against an installed Qt.
Building them as part of the main build means the way the Qt targets
are defined and created are not representative of an end user's build.
By building them as separate projects using ExternalProject, we can
more closely replicate the intended audience's environment. This
should allow us to catch more problems earlier.
Having examples built as part of the main build also creates problems
with some static builds where a tool built by the main build is needed
during configure time. This happens with other repos like qtdeclarative
but not (currently) with qtbase. Converting the examples in qtbase to
be built using ExternalProject is intended as a demonstrator for how
other repos can do similar. Until other repos are converted, they will
continue to work as they did before, with examples as part of the main
build for non-static builds only.
The new build-externally behavior is only supported for non-prefix
builds with this change. Prefix builds will continue to use the old
non-external method. Support for building examples externally in
prefix builds will be a separate change.
Task-number: QTBUG-90820
Fixes: QTBUG-91068
Change-Id: I2304329940568dbdb7da18d54d5595ea7d8668bc
Reviewed-by: Alexandru Croitor <alexandru.croitor@qt.io>
Move the project prelude to
examples/widgets/tools/plugandpaint/CMakeLists.txt
to mark it as the entry point of the example project.
Remove the project prelude from all its subdirectories, because the
subdirs are not supposed to be built separately.
Remove the wrong code that pro2cmake generated for the application's
project file. That merely tried to link the basictools static plugin.
Move common initialization code (CMAKE_AUTO*, INSTALL_EXAMPLESDIR) to
the top-level plugandpaint project file.
Remove superfluous CMAKE_INCLUDE_CURRENT_DIR.
Set the output directory of the extrafilters plugin to the application's
build directory such that the app can find the plugin without having to
install the example.
Skip regeneration in those files, to avoid scattering the project files
with special case markers.
Fixes: QTBUG-87449
Fixes: QTBUG-91066
Change-Id: I3ceb08f5fcda1ffea3c35cee8580f7b5e4ecfc1f
Reviewed-by: Alexandru Croitor <alexandru.croitor@qt.io>
* Assume UTF-8 on all Unix like systems
* Export some functions to be able to compile QTextCodec once
moved to Qt5Compat.
Task-number: QTBUG-75665
Change-Id: I52ec47a848bc0ba72e9c7689668b1bcc5d736c29
Reviewed-by: Lars Knoll <lars.knoll@qt.io>
This patch adds a publicly callable qt6_add_plugin() API to create
plugins. This API is meant to cover cases such as the plugandpaint
example.
This patch also renames qt_add_plugin to qt_internal_add_plugin in order
to avoid clashes with the public API. To avoid breaking the existing
projects, a compatibility wrapper function is enabled by default unless
QT_DISABLE_QT_ADD_PLUGIN_COMPATIBILITY is specified.
Fixes: QTBUG-82961
Change-Id: If5b564a8406c90434f1bdad0b8df76d3e6626b5f
Reviewed-by: Alexandru Croitor <alexandru.croitor@qt.io>
Create CMake config files which can be used from the very same CMake
project. These CMake config files simply do not create any targets,
controlled via the QT_NO_CREATE_TARGETS.
This patch also allows to build qtbase.git:examples as a standalone
project, against an already-built Qt.
Ran this:
ag -s "QT " examples -l -0 | xargs -0 -n 1 .../util/cmake/pro2cmake.py --is-example
Task-number: QTBUG-74713
Change-Id: I44cce5a4048618b30f890c5b789592c227a8b47d
Reviewed-by: Alexandru Croitor <alexandru.croitor@qt.io>
