29.04.2020 
Since the postponement of Qt World Summit this May 12-14, The Qt Company decided to host a virtual one in its place called Qt Virtual Tech Con. The event offered talks you won’t hear in October, virtual exhibits, and Q&As online, for free. KDAB’s Kevin Funk presented Using Modern CMake with Qt and we showed […]
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QtCreator CMake for Android plugin
Santa Claus is coming to … wait a minute, it’s not Christmas yet! Status update: The patch was merged into master branch on Mar 6th, therefore it will be part of QtCreator 4.10(5.0?) not 4.9! I have the pleasure to let you know that KDAB has contributed to Qt with yet another super cool project! […]
Clang-Tidy, part 1: Modernize your source code using C++11/C++14 Automated refactoring of your source code using powerful open-source tooling
This blog series will introduce the clang-tidy utility from the Clang/LLVM project and show how to use it to automatically refactor
Context-sensitive CMake documentation in QtCreator
CMake 3.0 was released last week with many major new features and new Qt integration for uic and rcc. A major change with this CMake release is the new documentation system based on reStructuredText and Sphinx. Sphinx has the ability to generate Qt Assistant files, so these are now easy to create reproducibly from the […]
Modern CMake with Qt and Boost
Last week I attended the MeetingC++ conference with several colleagues. KDAB was a gold sponsor of the conference in Düsseldorf, and I delivered a talk about ‘Modern CMake’ with Qt and Boost. My slides are available here and the sequence of them is reflected in this post. As there will be no video recordings posted […]
Using CMake with Qt 5 The basics of a powerful build system alternative to QMake
CMake is a buildsystem generator developed in the open, and widely used for Qt based development. Especially when creating large or complex software, CMake can be more suitable to use than QMake. KDE was even the tipping point for the popularity of CMake in general, and with Qt 4 in particular, according to Bill Hoffman. […]