How to prevent Qt from compiling code examples
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NOTE: This guide is for Qt 4. See Building_Qt_5_from_Git for instructions for Qt 5.
Compile Qt Faster by Skipping Examples
Compiling Qt is fairly straight-forward, but quite a lengthy process.
To make it much quicker, an easy way is to prevent examples from being compiled.
One way of doing it is:
* extract source sdk (or git clone it)
* start configure with option "dont-process" (works only on windows, doesn't seem to exist on Linux configure)
<br />configure -openssl -qt-libjpeg -qt-gif -qt-zlib -webkit -phonon -no-plugin-manifests -plugin-sql-sqlite -opensource -debug-and-release -confirm-license -dont-process<br />
* then launch explicitely newly created qmake to build only libs and tools
<br />QTDIR%/qmake/qmake -r QT_BUILD_PARTS="libs tools&quot;<br />
* Compile generated makefile
<br />nmake<br />
Compilation time is improved by around 80 (approximately 100 minutes instead of 8 hours) and you end up with a perfectly usable Qt, in debug and release.
On Linux configure and build can be accelerated by using all available cores.
<br />export MAKEFLAGS=-j4<br />configure -AllTheOptionsYouNeed<br />make -j4<br />
Note that compilation place is hardcoded inside qmake and used to find QMAKESPECs. You can however change it later using
qmake -query
lists all available variable (mostly paths)
qmake -set
overrides previously hardcoded value