Chapter 2. Discovering QMake Secrets
This chapter addresses the issue of creating a cross-platform application that relies on platform-specific code. We will see the impact of qmake on the compilation of your project.
You will learn how to create a system monitoring application that retrieves the average CPU load and the memory used from Windows, Linux, and Mac. For this kind of OS dependent application, architecture is the key to keeping your application reliable and maintainable.
At the end of this chapter, you will be able to create and organize a cross-platform application that uses platform-specific code and displays Qt Charts widgets. Moreover, qmake will not be a mystery anymore.
This chapter covers the following topics:
- Platform-specific code organization
- Design patterns, strategy, and singleton
- Abstract class and pure virtual function
- Qt Charts
- The qmake tool
