Is there any way to get the version and vendor of the compiler used by the user through qmake? What I need is to disable building some targets of my project when g++ 3.x is used and enable them when g++ 4.x is used.
Update: Most answers targeted the preprocessor. This is something that I want to avoid. I don't want a target to be build for a specific compiler version and I want this decision to be made by the build system.
In addition to ashcatch's answer, qmake allows you to query the command line and get the response back as a variable. So you could to something like this:
linux-g++ {
system( g++ --version | grep -e "\<4.[0-9]" ) {
message( "g++ version 4.x found" )
CONFIG += g++4
}
else system( g++ --version | grep -e "\<3.[0-9]" ) {
message( "g++ version 3.x found" )
CONFIG += g++3
}
else {
error( "Unknown system/compiler configuration" )
}
}
Then later, when you want to use it to specify targets, you can use the config scoping rules:
SOURCES += blah blah2 blah3
g++4: SOURCES += blah4 blah5
My answer based on Caleb Huitt - cjhuitt's. But his approach does not work for me.
*-g++ {
GCC_VERSION = $$system("g++ -dumpversion")
contains(GCC_VERSION, 6.[0-9]) {
message( "g++ version 6.x found" )
CONFIG += g++6
} else {
contains(GCC_VERSION, 5.[0-9]) {
message( "g++ version 5.x found" )
CONFIG += g++5
} else {
contains(GCC_VERSION, 4.[0-9]) {
message( "g++ version 4.x found" )
CONFIG += g++4
} else {
message( "Unknown GCC configuration" )
}
}
}
}
As you see you can get version from GCC and then compare it with regex expression.
The way how to use is the same:
SOURCES += blah blah2 blah3
g++4: SOURCES += blah4 blah5