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I’ve been playing around with Qt for a few hours now. I found that qmake produces Xcode project files on Mac OS X instead of good ol’ makefiles. I don’t want to launch Xcode every time I want to build ‘Hello, world’.
How do I make qmake generate regular makefiles or, if that’s something that cannot be done on the Mac, how do I compile .xcodeproj files from the command line?
I tried xcodebuild -project myProject -alltargets. I get a lot of output followed by Abort trap.
The open-source Qt binary installers for OS X from Trolltech default to creating .xcodeproj files when you run qmake. I don’t use XCode for editing so it is a pain to open it to compile the project.
To compile your projects from Terminal.app, just set an environment variable of QMAKESPEC to macx-g++
If you want to just compile a certain project from the terminal, go into that directory and run
When you run qmake, this will create a Makefile which you can use by running make.