[CMake] FindQT.cmake on windows

Bill Hoffman bill.hoffman at kitware.com
Wed Apr 9 16:41:31 EDT 2008


Alexander Neundorf wrote:
> On Wednesday 09 April 2008, Andreas Pakulat wrote:
>> On 09.04.08 10:48:30, Mike Arthur wrote:
>>> On Wednesday 09 April 2008 10:37:39 Andreas Pakulat wrote:
>>>> Thats because qmake is in the PATH on unix usually, I think it works
>>>> autoamtically on windows too if the Qt/bin path is listed in the PATH
>>>> environment variable.
>>> Is there any reason FindQT couldn't just look (by default) in the default
>>> Qt Windows install location?
>> Probably, but having a quick look at FindQt.cmake that file is a
>> complete hack in itself, its underdocumented and you should probably use
> 
> It's a big file, mainly due to the fact that Qt has been split into many 
> modules, the structure in itself is quite ok.
> The dependency detection near the end is a bit hacky (that's why I didn't 
> transfer that part (yet) to KDEs FindQt4.cmake).
> 

Alex, I don't think FindQt4.cmake is what is being called a hack.  It is 
FindQt.cmake which tries to handle Qt3 or Qt4, and really is not very good.

-Bill


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