Map of Class Names onto Implementing Libraries

Carey Gister

I'm porting an existing application to 64 bit Windows. The application was last built using QT 4.5 under Visual Studio 2005. I am building it under Visual Studio 2013 using QT 5.6.

I am not familiar with QT and I need to get this project done. I am looking for a list that maps QT classes, such as QFont, onto the implementing library so that I can add that library to my library list. QFont is a specific example, but I need this solution for the general case.

If such a document does not exist, then how would you solve his problem other than dumping the contents of the existing libraries and searching them?

This seems like a common problem, yet I could not find the solution in the forums.

Ideally, the QT class documentation would contain a reference to the implementing debug and non-debug libraries.

Thank you in advance.

SGaist

Hi and welcome to devnet,

The first step is basically to add QT += widgets in your .pro file and the removed all module prefix from your includes. i.e.

#include <QtGui/QWidget> => #include <QWidget>

Hope it helps

kshegunov

@Carey-Gister said:

I am not familiar with QT and I need to get this project done. I am looking for a list that maps QT classes, such as QFont, onto the implementing library so that I can add that library to my library list. QFont is a specific example, but I need this solution for the general case.

I don't understand the question. Are you looking in which module the class is defined? If so, the documentation provides that (e.g. for QFont)

QT += gui

So the class is in the gui module - Qt5Gui.dll.

Ideally, the QT class documentation would contain a reference to the implementing debug and non-debug libraries.

There's a difference only for windows. On linux the debug and release libraries are actually compatible and can be used interchangeably. For me they just reside in different folders. On windows the debug libraries have d suffix to them, so Qt5Guid.dll would be the debug version of Qt5Gui.dll.

Kind regards.

Carey Gister

Yes, that answers the question. I was not aware that the qmake QT += X syntax specified the containing library.