Build system improvements and feedback

Session Owners

Alexandru Croitor

Notes

Work done

• synqt in CC++
• cmake- generate project
• run tests standalone
• Improved translations
• Linux deploy
• configure -redo with different options
• Unity builds for faster builds
• Documentation fixes, qmake fixes
• Creator features: Cmake Editing/Debugging

Current work:

• VCPKG package
• IOS xcframekwork
• QML API public for QML libraries
• Upstream: Better AUTOMOC
• Thanks to many external contributors
• Wiki page about internal API

Discussion

• Enable loading single libraries to speed up Creator Clang parsing : Will consider / Check box in project to not have it parse the entire tree as a workaound
• Dependency creep (rebuilding too many files): Most likely touched a file that is in bootstrap build causing rebuild of moc, consider building tools separately
• QML API CMake/ Design Studio: Still under Discussion, QML modules, CMake vs .qmlproject, Qt for Python

• CMake Multiconfig issues: Ninja. VSCode/macOS, not supported in Creator
• Distributed builds (Fast build) upstream rejected, out of scope