Leaning into the Qt build world

At my current job I will be building QT 4.8.x somewhat regularly.

I was quite amazed that the default build process on windows for QT 4.8.x uses nmake, and that nmake is not out of the box capable of distributing builds to multiple cores.

This is especially distressing considering that I have access to a relatively fast incredibuild cluster, which is more than happy to distribute the build to multiple machines when used with SCons or directly from Visual Studio 2012.

There is a some hope on the horizon however.  There appears to be a tool called JOM that effects a clone of nmake with the addition of parallel builds on multiple cores in a manner quite similar to make -jN from the *nix world.

http://qt-project.org/wiki/jom


I will be trying it sometime this week.  Hopefully it will suit my needs.

Cheers,

JonnyRo