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