January 10, 2010
You might know that there’s a new kid in the C++ compilers list ; clang. Llvm has been around for quite some time, but until recently the only way to make use of it was through the somehow cumbersome llvm-gcc which binds the gcc C/C++ frontend to the llvm backend. People (mostly Apple) have been [...]
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November 22, 2009
qmake (sort of) supports lex/yacc, but modern people prefer to use flex/bison. If you google, you can find some tricks like convincing qmake that yacc is spelled ‘bison’ and so on. Morever qmake supports for lex/yacc has several drawbacks, such as weird naming scheme, and (when using the tricks), dependencies are not building files in [...]
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May 2, 2009
I have the problem for my application Opale, which used to be KDE only and is now both Qt and KDE.
The first thing I’ve done is to switch from *.po (gettext) to *.ts (qt), because Qt can not (or can it ? tell me how !) handle gettext files. Then, I needed to use qApp->addTranslator() [...]
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March 10, 2009
We are used to polished and great tools from the trolls, but qmake has always been the big exception to this: ugly documentation, lot of undocumented tricks, and missing features.
For me the biggest one was that it would not automatically create the rule to transform *.ts to *.qm in the generated Makefile. I have been [...]
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March 5, 2009
Qt supports most types for most compilers…… but long double. I do not know why. When asking on #qt (IRC), people say that nobody seems to care. Well… I do. long double have some use in scientific software at least. If you ever need to use long double in QTest, you will need to add [...]
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November 11, 2008
Opale was an application written using koffice that I use to handle my personal accounts. Long ago I have dropped support for koffice (mainly because of the crappy/undocumented/buggy chart API) and since then opale was a kde-based application.
One year ago, i have started porting it to kde4, and, meanwhile, made it a Qt4 application. Using [...]
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June 27, 2008
One of the great things about Qt is that you can compile the code under esoteric OSs (mmh?) like Windows or MacOS. Although I’ve almost never used windows, I did the packaging of yzis. I used the Nullsoft Installer, which is ok.
I had several issues with static linking, and thought maybe some of you [...]
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