On 2019-06-15 07:45, Bogdan Vatra via Development wrote:
Hi,
În ziua de joi, 13 iunie 2019, la 18:22:14 EEST, Thiago Macieira a
scris:
On Thursday, 13 June 2019 01:06:06 PDT Bogdan Vatra via Development
wrote:
> Hi,
>
> There is one more missing feature to add to your list: build & debug
>
> builds for msvc in one go (same as qmake does now, a single "make" command
> will build both targets).
I wouldn't call that a hard requirement. Separate builds for debug and
for
release are acceptable, the same way that we've ostensibly had support
for
shared-and-release builds but in practice they're always built
separately.
The only difficult part I see is enforcing the suffix. On Mac we've
had
problems with this, since a debug-only build is un-suffixed. Maybe
it's time
to rethink the strategy and make the suffix optional altogether (using
the
lib infix feature). On Windows, we should stop enforcing that
unoptimised
builds be -MDd and make it easy for people to debug into -MD
libraries.
Hardly anyone ever debugs into Microsoft's libraries...
I think libs built with -MDd are a must to enable debug builds for your
application. AFAIK (if I'm wrong I apologize) you can't mix debug apps
with
release libs.
So, as long as we need to provide libs, (qml) plugins for debug &
release I
think building them in one go is a must have feature.
Depends what you mean by "debug build".
The current definition of "debug" for MSVC Qt is:
1) Unoptimized (via /O flags)
2) Has debug symbols
3) Links to another c++ runtime library, which lets you debug into
(/MDd). (And this is what prevents you from mixing release Qt with debug
app)
The idea above would be to drop 3). On linux you don't link to a debug
libstdc++ either and you don't complain :)
But there might be problems:
- cmake -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Debug means /MDd ?
- The _DEBUG macro currently comes from /MDd, some users might be using
it to detect debug builds.
- MDd is useful to enable asserts in the C++ library. This argument is
strong on Windows, as you don't have valgrind there (or at least an
equivalent that doesn't suck too much).
Regards,
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