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Cross-Platform Development with Qt 6 and Modern C++

You're reading from   Cross-Platform Development with Qt 6 and Modern C++ Design and build applications with modern graphical user interfaces without worrying about platform dependency

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jun 2021
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781800204584
Length 442 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Preface 1. Section 1: The Basics
2. Chapter 1: Introduction to Qt 6 FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 2: Introduction to Qt Creator 4. Chapter 3: GUI Design Using Qt Widgets 5. Chapter 4: Qt Quick and QML 6. Section 2: Cross-Platform Development
7. Chapter 5: Cross-Platform Development 8. Section 3: Advanced Programming, Debugging, and Deployment
9. Chapter 6: Signals and Slots 10. Chapter 7: Model View Programming 11. Chapter 8: Graphics and Animations 12. Chapter 9: Testing and Debugging 13. Chapter 10: Deploying Qt Applications 14. Chapter 11: Internationalization 15. Chapter 12: Performance Considerations 16. Other Books You May Enjoy

Understanding build settings

Before a project is compiled or built, the compiler requires certain details, which are known as the build settings. This is a very important part of the compilation process. In this section, you will learn about build settings and how to configure them in a proper way. You can have multiple build configurations for the same project. Usually, Qt Creator creates debug, release, and profile build configurations automatically. A debug build contains additional debug symbols required for debugging an application, whereas the release version is an optimized version without such symbols. Generally, developers use a debug configuration for testing and a release configuration for creating the final binaries. A profile build is an optimized release build that is delivered with separate debug information and is best suited to analyzing applications.

Build settings can be specified in the Projects mode. You may find that the Projects button is disabled if there...

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