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What is the build system?

The build system is responsible for building Qt Extended as well as third party applications. It is based on the QBuild tool. See Introduction to QBuild for an introduction to the QBuild tool.

For definition purposes, the build system is made up of the following files.

• configure

  This is the initial entry-point into the build system. It is used to setup the build tree.

• qbuild.pro

  This file is read by QBuild. There is one of these files for each project.

• *.pri

  These are miscelaneous build system files. They are included from qbuild.pro files.

• src/build

  This is legacy home the build system. Many scripts live in here.

• qbuild/

  This is the home of QBuild.

See also Basics.