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Seth
10th July 2006, 04:20
Totally greenquestion.

From the new book, C++ GUI Programming w/ QT4, this "Build Debug Libraries" see attached.

What does this action do? I ran it on my command line, it took a long long time but it ran smooth with no problems.

But I don’t know what it actually did.

Can someone in laymen’s terms explain what building debug libraries does, and also where will I use it?

Thanks in advance!

jacek
10th July 2006, 12:23
Can someone in laymen’s terms explain what building debug libraries does, and also where will I use it?
You need debug version of Qt libraries when you want to debug your application. They contain information for the debugger, but also additional checks are performed and Qt will issue warnings when it detects certain problems.

Of course debugging is still possible with libraries compiled in release mode, but a lot of information won't be available.