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COMPILING
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A flexible make
system based on GNU make.
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QMake is a flexible compilation aid, based on the GNU "make" program. It was
originally developed for building the AMMA and GAMA libraries, but it can be
used for compiling any software project, however big or small. If your project
uses the AMMA or GAMA libraries, QMake will know where to find them.
QMake relies on a simple text file ("defs.mk") being present in
each directory of the project. Each defs.mk describes what must be compiled from that directory.
The documentation for QMake is fragmented at present:
- Simple usage of QMake is described in the
AMMA Tutorial.
- You need to set up your environment (same as for AMMA).
- Information describing the many variables in the
defs.mk file
for controlling what is built is given here
(Description File Variables). But to begin with, all you probably need is one or two of these:
- MAINS
- SOURCES
- LOCALHEADERS
- USESLIBS
- NESTED
E.g. if all you wanted to compile was one file called "fred.cc" containing a
main program, the defs.mk file would contain the single line:
MAINS = fred.cc
- Type
am to compile (am is an alias defined in the
AMMA environment). The QMake
command-line options describe how to use different modes of QMake.
- Xemacs users: there is an Xemacs
enhancement to allow easy QMake compilation from within Xemac.