Thankfully, no, once resolved, it should be pretty much done forever.

As once QT's built, qmake can just be reused.

dsc_ used to have a trick for building QT quickly, i thought.. like QT Creator will cache a bunch of stuff perhaps.. or maybe there was more to it.. i'm drawing a blank, and never done it

scoobybejesus: pff.. building static Qt is a headache. I think xiphon is most experienced here (or anyone with in-depth C++/unix knowledge)

I plan on doing some GUI dev soon again

sir dsc

hello this is dsc speaking

hello sir

when gui dev

Nice one dsc_ :D

^_^

.merges

QT static just takes a ton of time to build mostly, so you end up waiting a ton for it to finish. Even on high core machines + NVMe's, a clean takes 5-10 minutes, a build can take a half-hour.

For debugging one small part. I think I'm almost there, I'm just trying to avoid accidently nuking my install mucking with freetype.

Need to get it into the main library include paths so it settles down.