AUTOUIC

Should the target be processed with auto-uic (for Qt projects).

AUTOUIC is a boolean specifying whether CMake will handle the Qt uic code generator automatically, i.e. without having to use the QT4_WRAP_UI() or QT5_WRAP_UI() macro. Currently Qt4 and Qt5 are supported.

This property is initialized by the value of the CMAKE_AUTOUIC variable if it is set when a target is created.

When this property is ON, CMake will scan the header and source files at build time and invoke uic accordingly.

Header and source file processing

At build time, CMake scans each header and source file from the target's sources for include statements of the form

#include "ui_<ui_base>.h"

Once such an include statement is found in a file, CMake searches for the uic input file <ui_base>.ui

If the <ui_base>.ui file was found, uic is called on it to generate ui_<ui_base>.h in the directory

  • <AUTOGEN_BUILD_DIR>/include for single configuration generators or in

  • <AUTOGEN_BUILD_DIR>/include_<CONFIG> for multi configuration generators.

Where <AUTOGEN_BUILD_DIR> is the value of the target property AUTOGEN_BUILD_DIR.

The include directory is automatically added to the target's INCLUDE_DIRECTORIES.

Modifiers

AUTOUIC_EXECUTABLE: The uic executable will be detected automatically, but can be forced to a certain binary using this target property.

AUTOUIC_OPTIONS: Additional command line options for uic can be set via this target property. The corresponding AUTOUIC_OPTIONS source file property can be used to specify options to be applied only to a specific <base_name>.ui file.

SKIP_AUTOUIC: Source files can be excluded from AUTOUIC processing by setting this source file property.

SKIP_AUTOGEN: Source files can be excluded from AUTOMOC, AUTOUIC and AUTORCC processing by setting this source file property.

AUTOGEN_TARGETS_FOLDER: This global property can be used to group AUTOMOC, AUTOUIC and AUTORCC targets together in an IDE, e.g. in MSVS.

CMAKE_GLOBAL_AUTOGEN_TARGET: A global autogen target, that depends on all AUTOMOC or AUTOUIC generated <ORIGIN>_autogen targets in the project, will be generated when this variable is ON.

AUTOGEN_PARALLEL: This target property controls the number of moc or uic processes to start in parallel during builds.

See the cmake-qt(7) manual for more information on using CMake with Qt.