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CMAKE-QT(7)			     CMake			   CMAKE-QT(7)

NAME
       cmake-qt	- CMake	Qt Features Reference

INTRODUCTION
       CMake can find and use Qt 4 and Qt 5 libraries.	The Qt 4 libraries are
       found by	the FindQt4 find-module	shipped	with CMake, whereas the	 Qt  5
       libraries are found using "Config-file Packages"	shipped	with Qt	5. See
       cmake-packages(7) for more information about CMake  packages,  and  see
       the Qt cmake manual for your Qt version.

       Qt 4 and	Qt 5 may be used together in the same CMake buildsystem:

	  cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 3.8.0 FATAL_ERROR)

	  project(Qt4And5)

	  set(CMAKE_AUTOMOC ON)

	  find_package(Qt5 COMPONENTS Widgets DBus REQUIRED)
	  add_executable(publisher publisher.cpp)
	  target_link_libraries(publisher Qt5::Widgets Qt5::DBus)

	  find_package(Qt4 REQUIRED)
	  add_executable(subscriber subscriber.cpp)
	  target_link_libraries(subscriber Qt4::QtGui Qt4::QtDBus)

       A CMake target may not link to both Qt 4	and Qt 5.  A diagnostic	is is-
       sued if this is attempted or results from transitive target  dependency
       evaluation.

QT BUILD TOOLS
       Qt  relies  on  some bundled tools for code generation, such as moc for
       meta-object code	generation, uic	for widget layout and population,  and
       rcc for virtual file system content generation.	These tools may	be au-
       tomatically invoked by cmake(1) if the appropriate conditions are  met.
       The automatic tool invocation may be used with both Qt 4	and Qt 5.

   AUTOMOC
       The  AUTOMOC target property controls whether cmake(1) inspects the C++
       files in	the target to determine	if they	require	moc to be run, and  to
       create rules to execute moc at the appropriate time.

       If a macro from AUTOMOC_MACRO_NAMES is found in a header	file, moc will
       be run on the file.  The	result will be put into	a file named according
       to  moc_<basename>.cpp.	 If the	macro is found in a C++	implementation
       file, the moc output will be put	into a file named according to	<base-
       name>.moc,  following  the  Qt conventions.  The	<basename>.moc must be
       included	by the user in the C++ implementation file with	a preprocessor
       #include.

       Included	 moc_*.cpp  and	 *.moc	files  will be generated in the	<AUTO-
       GEN_BUILD_DIR>/include directory	which is automatically	added  to  the
       target's	INCLUDE_DIRECTORIES.

       o This  differs	from  CMake 3.7	and below; see their documentation for
	 details.

       o For multi configuration generators, the include directory  is	<AUTO-
	 GEN_BUILD_DIR>/include_<CONFIG>.

       o See AUTOGEN_BUILD_DIR.

       Not included moc_<basename>.cpp files will be generated in custom fold-
       ers to  avoid  name  collisions	and  included  in  a  separate	<AUTO-
       GEN_BUILD_DIR>/mocs_compilation.cpp  file  which	 is  compiled into the
       target.

       o See AUTOGEN_BUILD_DIR.

       The moc command line  will  consume  the	 COMPILE_DEFINITIONS  and  IN-
       CLUDE_DIRECTORIES target	properties from	the target it is being invoked
       for, and	for the	appropriate build configuration.

       The AUTOMOC target property may be pre-set for all following targets by
       setting	the  CMAKE_AUTOMOC  variable.	The AUTOMOC_MOC_OPTIONS	target
       property	may be populated to set	options	to pass	to moc.	The  CMAKE_AU-
       TOMOC_MOC_OPTIONS  variable may be populated to pre-set the options for
       all following targets.

       Additional  macro  names	 to  search  for  can  be   added   to	 AUTO-
       MOC_MACRO_NAMES.

       Additional  moc dependency file names can be extracted from source code
       by using	AUTOMOC_DEPEND_FILTERS.

       Source C++ files	can be excluded	from AUTOMOC  processing  by  enabling
       SKIP_AUTOMOC or the broader SKIP_AUTOGEN.

   AUTOUIC
       The  AUTOUIC target property controls whether cmake(1) inspects the C++
       files in	the target to determine	if they	require	uic to be run, and  to
       create rules to execute uic at the appropriate time.

       If   a	preprocessor   #include	  directive  is	 found	which  matches
       <path>ui_<basename>.h, and a <basename>.ui file exists, then  uic  will
       be  executed  to	generate the appropriate file.	The <basename>.ui file
       is searched for in the following	places

       1. <source_dir>/<basename>.ui

       2. <source_dir>/<path><basename>.ui

       3. <AUTOUIC_SEARCH_PATHS>/<basename>.ui

       4. <AUTOUIC_SEARCH_PATHS>/<path><basename>.ui

       where  <source_dir>  is	 the   directory   of	the   C++   file   and
       AUTOUIC_SEARCH_PATHS is a list of additional search paths.

       The   generated	generated  ui_*.h  files  are  placed  in  the	<AUTO-
       GEN_BUILD_DIR>/include directory	which is automatically	added  to  the
       target's	INCLUDE_DIRECTORIES.

       o This  differs	from  CMake 3.7	and below; see their documentation for
	 details.

       o For multi configuration generators, the include directory  is	<AUTO-
	 GEN_BUILD_DIR>/include_<CONFIG>.

       o See AUTOGEN_BUILD_DIR.

       The AUTOUIC target property may be pre-set for all following targets by
       setting the CMAKE_AUTOUIC variable.  The	AUTOUIC_OPTIONS	 target	 prop-
       erty   may   be	 populated  to	set  options  to  pass	to  uic.   The
       CMAKE_AUTOUIC_OPTIONS variable may be populated to pre-set the  options
       for  all	 following  targets.  The AUTOUIC_OPTIONS source file property
       may be set on the <basename>.ui file to set particular options for  the
       file.  This overrides options from the AUTOUIC_OPTIONS target property.

       A  target  may  populate	 the INTERFACE_AUTOUIC_OPTIONS target property
       with options that should	be used	when invoking uic.  This must be  con-
       sistent	with the AUTOUIC_OPTIONS target	property content of the	depen-
       der target.  The	CMAKE_DEBUG_TARGET_PROPERTIES variable may be used  to
       track  the origin target	of such	INTERFACE_AUTOUIC_OPTIONS.  This means
       that a library which provides an	alternative translation	system for  Qt
       may specify options which should	be used	when running uic:

	  add_library(KI18n klocalizedstring.cpp)
	  target_link_libraries(KI18n Qt5::Core)

	  # KI18n uses the tr2i18n() function instead of tr().	That function is
	  # declared in	the klocalizedstring.h header.
	  set(autouic_options
	    -tr	tr2i18n
	    -include klocalizedstring.h
	  )

	  set_property(TARGET KI18n APPEND PROPERTY
	    INTERFACE_AUTOUIC_OPTIONS ${autouic_options}
	  )

       A  consuming project linking to the target exported from	upstream auto-
       matically uses appropriate options when uic is run by AUTOUIC, as a re-
       sult of linking with the	IMPORTED target:

	  set(CMAKE_AUTOUIC ON)
	  # Uses a libwidget.ui	file:
	  add_library(LibWidget	libwidget.cpp)
	  target_link_libraries(LibWidget
	    KF5::KI18n
	    Qt5::Widgets
	  )

       Source  files  can  be  excluded	 from  AUTOUIC	processing by enabling
       SKIP_AUTOUIC or the broader SKIP_AUTOGEN.

   AUTORCC
       The AUTORCC target property controls whether cmake(1) creates rules  to
       execute rcc at the appropriate time on source files which have the suf-
       fix .qrc.

	  add_executable(myexe main.cpp	resource_file.qrc)

       The AUTORCC target property may be pre-set for all following targets by
       setting	the  CMAKE_AUTORCC variable.  The AUTORCC_OPTIONS target prop-
       erty may	be populated to	set options to pass  to	 rcc.	The  CMAKE_AU-
       TORCC_OPTIONS  variable may be populated	to pre-set the options for all
       following targets.  The AUTORCC_OPTIONS source file property may	be set
       on  the	<name>.qrc  file to set	particular options for the file.  This
       overrides options from the AUTORCC_OPTIONS target property.

       Source files can	 be  excluded  from  AUTORCC  processing  by  enabling
       SKIP_AUTORCC or the broader SKIP_AUTOGEN.

THE <ORIGIN>_AUTOGEN TARGET
       The  moc	 and  uic  tools  are  executed	as part	of a synthesized <ORI-
       GIN>_autogen custom target generated by CMake.  By default  that	 <ORI-
       GIN>_autogen  target  inherits  the dependencies	of the <ORIGIN>	target
       (see AUTOGEN_ORIGIN_DEPENDS).  Target dependencies may be added to  the
       <ORIGIN>_autogen	 target	 by  adding them to the	AUTOGEN_TARGET_DEPENDS
       target property.

VISUAL STUDIO GENERATORS
       When using the Visual Studio generators,	CMake  generates  a  PRE_BUILD
       custom command instead of the <ORIGIN>_autogen custom target (for AUTO-
       MOC and AUTOUIC).  This isn't  always  possible	though	and  an	 <ORI-
       GIN>_autogen custom target is used, when	either

       o the  <ORIGIN> target depends on GENERATED files which aren't excluded
	 from AUTOMOC and AUTOUIC by SKIP_AUTOMOC, SKIP_AUTOUIC,  SKIP_AUTOGEN
	 or CMP0071

       o AUTOGEN_TARGET_DEPENDS	lists a	source file

       o CMAKE_GLOBAL_AUTOGEN_TARGET is	enabled

QTMAIN.LIB ON WINDOWS
       The  Qt	4  and 5 IMPORTED targets for the QtGui	libraries specify that
       the qtmain.lib static library shipped with Qt will be linked by all de-
       pendent executables which have the WIN32_EXECUTABLE enabled.

       To disable this behavior, enable	the Qt5_NO_LINK_QTMAIN target property
       for Qt 5	based targets or QT4_NO_LINK_QTMAIN target property for	 Qt  4
       based targets.

	  add_executable(myexe WIN32 main.cpp)
	  target_link_libraries(myexe Qt4::QtGui)

	  add_executable(myexe_no_qtmain WIN32 main_no_qtmain.cpp)
	  set_property(TARGET main_no_qtmain PROPERTY QT4_NO_LINK_QTMAIN ON)
	  target_link_libraries(main_no_qtmain Qt4::QtGui)

COPYRIGHT
       2000-2020 Kitware, Inc. and Contributors

3.19.2				 Feb 28, 2021			   CMAKE-QT(7)

NAME | INTRODUCTION | QT BUILD TOOLS | THE <ORIGIN>_AUTOGEN TARGET | VISUAL STUDIO GENERATORS | QTMAIN.LIB ON WINDOWS | COPYRIGHT

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