a question regarding Qt version

Batman

if i wrote a code with Qt 5.3 will it compie with Qt 5.2?

mrjj

@Batman
Hi and welcome
Most of the time yes.
From version to version sometimes codes are changed so one need to fix something.
But such cases are often when jumping more than one version. like from 4.8 to 5.5

From 5.3 to 5.2 should just work unless you find and use a feature first introduced in 5.3

SGaist

Hi and welcome to devnet,

Unless you are using a feature introduced in 5.3, you can compile your code with an older version of the same major series (like your example 5.3 -> 5.2 but it goes back to 5.0) without any problem.

Qt guaranties backward compatibility both source and binary for a major release lifetime, but again that stands if you don't use a feature introduced in a more recent version.

SeeLook

You may have problems with loading translation files qt_xx.qm. They were split since 5.3.
Also prefer to use "old" way of connecting signals and slots: SIGNAL/SLOT macros over newest one with method references.

SGaist

@SeeLook can you explain why the old syntax should be preferred ?

SeeLook

I built my app for different Linux distributions. Whenever the build was against Qt 5.2, it failed on connect statements of some classes of mine (derived from QObject). So simple solution was to keep old format.
I can't explain what was actually a source of this issue.

JKSH

@SeeLook said:

I built my app for different Linux distributions. Whenever the build was against Qt 5.2, it failed on connect statements of some classes of mine (derived from QObject). So simple solution was to keep old format.
I can't explain what was actually a source of this issue.

Then I recommend you try to find out the source of this issue. It's not nice to tell others to use the old way without understanding why.

SeeLook

Meanwhile I did....
The reason was that on those platforms compiler flag to use c++11 was not set by default. So my code was not able to use this new format without that.
Forgive me didn't realise that before.

JKSH

@SeeLook said:

The reason was that on those platforms compiler flag to use c++11 was not set by default. So my code was not able to use this new format without that.

I'm glad you found it!

Forgive me didn't realise that before.

No problem :)