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Application Development with Qt Creator

You're reading from   Application Development with Qt Creator Build cross-platform applications and GUIs using Qt 5 and C++

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jan 2020
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ISBN-13 9781789951752
Length 426 pages
Edition 3rd Edition
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Lee Zhi Eng Lee Zhi Eng
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Table of Contents (19) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Section 1: The Basics
2. Getting Started with Qt Creator FREE CHAPTER 3. Building Applications with Qt Creator 4. Designing Your Application with Qt Designer 5. Qt Foundations 6. Developing Applications with Qt Widgets 7. Section 2: Advanced Features
8. Drawing with Qt 9. Doing More with Qt Quick 10. Implementing Multimedia with Qt Quick 11. Sensors and Qt Quick 12. Section 3: Practical Matters
13. Localizing Your Application with Qt Linguist 14. Optimizing Performance with Qt Creator 15. Developing Mobile Applications with Qt Creator 16. Embedded and IoT Development with Qt Creator 17. Qt Tips and Tricks 18. Other Books You May Enjoy

Linking against our sample library

Now, let's make an application that depends on our library. Our application will call the factorial function in the library, statically linking to the library in order to access the factorial function. To accomplish this, you need to perform the following steps:

  1. Select Close All Projects and Editors from the File menu.
  2. Choose New File or Project from the File menu and create a new Qt console application called MathFunctionsTest using the wizard.
  3. Right-click on MathFunctionsTest in the Project pane and click on Add Library. You can now choose a library in your build tree, a library outside your build tree, an external library on your system such as the Unix math library, fftmpeg, or another library that you've created. Select External Library and click on Next.
  1. Browse the library file that was built in the previous section by clicking...
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