Build Systems

CXX-Qt can be integrated into existing CMake projects or built with only cargo. The getting started guide provides documentation on how to setup your project:

• Cargo Integration
• CMake Integration

CXX-Qt could work with any C++ build system so long as the QMAKE and CXXQT_EXPORT_DIR environment variables are set before calling Cargo, as documented in CMake integration. However, using C++ build systems besides CMake with CXX-Qt is untested.

CxxQtBuilder

With both build systems a build script (build.rs) file needs to be used, so that CXX-Qt knows which files to look for bridges and to build a Qt C++ library for linking later.

See CxxQtBuilder documentation for more details.

QML Modules

When using QML with CXX-Qt QML modules can be output. This allows for attributes such as #[qml_element] to register the QObject with the QML type system without any C++ code.

See QmlModule documentation for more details.