Compiling a Qt project in Mac

[sunil.thaha]

Hi Guys,

This is a Mac-newbie question. I have my Qt project. invoking qmake generates a xcodeproj/ rather than creating a Makefile. So how do I generate a Makefile.
Or

How can I compile the xcodeproj from the terminal ?

[jpn]

QMAKESPEC is set to "macx-xcode", isn't it? Try switching it to "macx-g++" or passing the spec to qmake:

qmake -spec macx-g++

[sunil.thaha]

Thanks a lot!!

I failed to find any such thing in Assistant.
Could you please post the link in the assistant if it has any ?

BTW: I did not find the QMAKESPEC environment variable defined.
So, I believe Qt generates xcode be default

[jpn]

Sorry, I don't know. I just remember someone else having the same problem. Perhaps it's mentioned in INSTALL file?

[Brandybuck]

It is in Assistant, and you would have eventually found it if you dug a bit further in the qmake docs for Mac OSX topics: http://doc.trolltech.com/4.3/qmake-platform-notes.html

If you build Qt from sources, you get the macx-g++ spec by default, but if you use the binary package from TT, you get macx-xcode by default.

[sunil.thaha]

Thanks for bringing that to our notice !!
And that answers many other questions I have