fail to use Q_OBJECT Macro in CMake Project

[SGaist]

Hi,

Did you already took a look at the CMake Manual from Qt's documentation ?

[Sewing]

I did, but without being able to infer any conclusive hints from the article towards a solution for my problem

[VRonin]

The problem is not CMake:

@Sewing said in fail to use Q_OBJECT Macro in CMake Project:

mainWindow.cpp: The file contains a Q_OBJECT macro

from http://doc.qt.io/qt-5/moc.html

The moc tool reads a C++ header file.

Did you declare a class with Q_OBJECT in a .cpp file? if so either yo do as the compiler tells you and #include "mainWindow.moc" (this file name might change depending on how moc gets invoked) at the end of the file or, as I would recommend, move it into a header

[Sewing]

Mh difficult since I employ the pimpl idiom in which the nested implementation class in defined entirely within the source file

[SGaist]

Then move the private declaration part in its own header that you only include in the implementation part.

Note that your MainWindow implementation looks a bit convoluted, you might be over-engineering some things.

[Sewing]

thank you for the help.

you mean cuz of using pimpl? this is just a minimal example and my intention was, to keep the public interface of mainwindow.cpp quite clean and readable

[VRonin]

@Sewing said in fail to use Q_OBJECT Macro in CMake Project:

pimpl idiom in which the nested implementation class in defined entirely within the source file

You can move it into a header file, Qt does it all the time, they use _p.h suffix to mark private headers. For example: QDateTimePrivate

[Sewing]

so if I understood correctly, the reason of having to do this is that the Q_OBJECT Macro has to be defined in the header file instead of the source file?

and after doing so, is the line

set_target_properties(${PROJECT_NAME} PROPERTIES AUTOMOC TRUE)

sufficient for invoking the MOC in my CMakeLists file?

[VRonin]

@SGaist said in fail to use Q_OBJECT Macro in CMake Project:

Did you already took a look at the CMake Manual from Qt's documentation ?

@Sewing said in fail to use Q_OBJECT Macro in CMake Project:

I did

from http://doc.qt.io/qt-5/cmake-manual.html:

# Instruct CMake to run moc automatically when needed.
set(CMAKE_AUTOMOC ON)

[Sewing]

I read that, just thought variables in CMake are old-style while target_properties are the modern way to handle things

[VRonin]

I heard opposing arguments to that when it comes to moc/rcc/uic. Personally, I use the set(CMAKE_AUTOMOC ON) way