[CMake] QT4 on OSX and Cocoa

[Aaron Turner]

Doh!  Yeah, I suspect that will help quite a bit. :)

Thanks.
-Aaron

On Tue, May 4, 2010 at 9:04 AM, Michael Jackson
<mike.jackson at bluequartz.net> wrote:
> According to this page:
>
> http://qt.nokia.com/downloads/qt-for-open-source-cpp-development-on-mac-os-x
>
> You download EITHER the Carbon OR the Cocoa version. I think you are getting
> confused with actually BUILDING Qt yourself. If you do build Qt yourself
> then you will need to pass the "-cocoa" to the configure script in order to
> build Qt with Cocoa. You would also need to pass the proper arch flags in
> addition so that you build the archs that you want to support (i386, ppc,
> x86_64).
>
>  Once Qt is built and (optionally) installed, CMake will determine which
> option (Carbon or Cocoa) was used when Qt was built and add the appropriate
> compile and linker flags to your build.
>
> Hope that helps.
> ___________________________________________________________
> Mike Jackson                      www.bluequartz.net
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>
>
> On May 4, 2010, at 11:50 AM, Aaron Turner wrote:
>
>> per this:
>>
>> http://doc.qt.nokia.com/4.6/developing-on-mac.html
>>
>> There is only one build, but it supports both.  Unfortunately, it
>> defaults to Carbon *unless* you pass -cocoa to qmake.  And Carbon
>> doesn't support 64bit.  Since QT4/Cocoa supports 32bit & 64bit it's
>> safe to default that way; no idea why Nokia didn't choose that in the
>> first place.
>>
>> Sounds like I need to hack the FindQt4.cmake package and send a patch. :)
>>
>> On Tue, May 4, 2010 at 6:05 AM, Michael Jackson
>> <mike.jackson at bluequartz.net> wrote:
>>>
>>> Did you download a Cocoa build of Qt4 or build Qt4 with Cocoa support
>>> yourself? I don't think there is anything special to do in CMake besides
>>> the
>>> normal find_package (Qt4) stuff.
>>>
>>> ___________________________________________________________
>>> Mike Jackson                      www.bluequartz.net
>>> Principal Software Engineer       mike.jackson at bluequartz.net
>>> BlueQuartz Software               Dayton, Ohio
>>>
>>>
>>> On May 4, 2010, at 12:31 AM, Aaron Turner wrote:
>>>
>>>> What's the trick for getting cmake to pass -cocoa to qmake so QT4 will
>>>> link against 64bit apps on Snow Leopard?  The default QT4 build only
>>>> supports 64bit under Cocoa, but Carbon is the default.
>>>>
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>>
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>



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Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.
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