preprocessor output

[kS]

How do I generate preprocessor output on qt Creator ?

the standard -E option for mingw32 doesn't work.

thanks

[ChrisW67]

The -E option for gcc/g++ and does work quite happily in the MingW GCC compiler.

Adding -E to the QMAKE_CFLAGS and QMAKE_CXXFLAGS varaibles adds the -E option to the compiler calls. Something like:

QMAKE_CFLAGS = $$QMAKE_CFLAGS -E
QMAKE_CXXFLAGS = $$QMAKE_CXXFLAGS -E

QMAKE_CFLAGS = $$QMAKE_CFLAGS -E
QMAKE_CXXFLAGS = $$QMAKE_CXXFLAGS -E

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However, the way that the Makefile is written by qmake means that two things will happen:

• The preprocessed output will be captured into the object (.o) file
• The link will fail because the object file is actually a text file