Default building system for Qt

[user001]

I am reading online and get confused. I thought the QMake is the default building system because Creator from Qt5 uses it. But this article says from Qt3 to Qt4 CMake is used. Now QMake is used from Qt5?

[Chris Kawa]

In current versions of both Qt 4 and 5 qmake is the default when using QtCreator. You can use CMake for both of them and QtCreator supports that too, but it requires some more manual steps to add Qt libraries to the project.

[dbzhang800]

Hi, which article says that CMake is the default building system of Qt?

[user001]

here is the "article":http://qt-project.org/quarterly/view/using_cmake_to_build_qt_projects: http://qt-project.org/quarterly/view/using_cmake_to_build_qt_projects

[tilsitt]

Hi,

the article is not saying CMake is the default building system. It is one among others. Among these others, qmake is the only one provided with Qt installation, so you can see it as the default one, but, again, it is only one among others.

[dbzhang800]

Hi, seems you have misunderstood it.

It only says that KDE4 using CMake as the default build system, while KDE3 using autotools.

KDE is an project which depend on Qt.