Qt on saoe: The Nifty Oddity

Building Qt 6 on Windows with Visual Studio

Sun, 09 May 2021 19:24:52 +0200

Time for another short guidance on how to build your own copy of the Qt framework from source.

MOC error message when building a small single file Qt program

Thu, 14 Sep 2017 21:56:59 +0000

Just a reminder for myself, because I will certainly stumble over it again in the future:

No QtTools (lupdate/linguist/lrelease) when built as shared libraries

Tue, 12 May 2015 22:44:17 +0000

So I’ve built Qt from source and used it successfully in the last year or so.
Some time ago I turned my attention to multilanguage support and learned about Qt’s tools: linguist.exe, lupdate.exe and lrelease.exe.

Building Qt for static linking

Tue, 31 Mar 2015 02:38:17 +0000

One of the drawbacks of using such a comprehensive framework as Qt is the massively increased size of you program. When my pet project RandFill was only using the plain Win32-API, it was a single executable file of a couple of hundred kilobytes.

Now, using dynamically linked Qt, the whole package (with DLLs, MSVC redistributables, etc.) is bigger than 20 megabytes as a 64-bit build!

Size comparison: RandFill 1.1.0 vs. 1.2.x-devel

Wed, 02 Jul 2014 01:37:33 +0000

I’m currently migrating RandFill from plain Win32 code to a mix of Win32 and Qt 5 code (mainly the GUI parts, at the moment); and the size comparison between these two versions is sobering.

Journal #3

Sun, 15 Jun 2014 20:40:05 +0000

Konnichiwa, time for another status report.

CMake, Visual Studio and Qt 5 with MOC...

Sun, 15 Jun 2014 14:22:12 +0000

After building a 64-bit version of Qt with/for Microsoft Visual Studio, building a simple Qt test program and doing first steps with the CMake build system, the next hurdle appeared on the horizon in the form of support for Qt and its Q_OBJECT features (I am currently fighting more with the changes I made to my build environment than improving the actual program code…).

Building a simple Qt application on Windows with Visual Studio

Sat, 12 Apr 2014 17:59:06 +0000

After preparing the Qt framework, I needed to check if everything works; therefore I built a very simple Qt (5.2.1) application, the GUI-equivalent of a “Hello-World” program.

Building Qt 5 on Windows with Visual Studio

Sat, 12 Apr 2014 00:00:00 +0000

Short guides on how to build your own copy of the Qt 5 framework from source.

These were originally separate blog posts, but since they are now pretty outdated (since they are for old versions of Qt, Windows and Visual Studio), I combined them here on a single page, for archival purposes (with many dead links…), and edited them a bit.

Journal #2

Mon, 07 Apr 2014 21:40:39 +0000

Konnichiwa again, picking up the loose threads from the last instance.

Journal #1

Sun, 28 Jul 2013 17:18:29 +0000

Konnichiwa!