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Application Development with Qt Creator - Second Edition

You're reading from   Application Development with Qt Creator - Second Edition Design and build dazzling cross-platform applications using Qt and Qt Quick

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Product type Paperback
Published in Nov 2014
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781784398675
Length 264 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Preface 1. Getting Started with Qt Creator 2. Building Applications with Qt Creator FREE CHAPTER 3. Designing Your Application with Qt Designer 4. Qt Foundations 5. Developing Applications with Qt Widgets 6. Drawing with Qt 7. Doing More with Qt Quick 8. Multimedia and Qt Quick 9. Sensors and Qt Quick 10. Localizing Your Application with Qt Linguist 11. Optimizing Performance with Qt Creator 12. Developing Mobile Applications with Qt Creator 13. Qt Tips and Tricks Index

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.
  4. Browse the library file that was built in the previous section by clicking on Browse, next to the line labelled Library file. It'll be in a folder named something such as build...
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