Commonly Used Options

These are options you might want to pass to QMake when configuring your build.

-spec …: Used to specify the platform and compiler of the build. There is no comprehensive list of available options, but usually you will only need the ones mentioned in our build guides (macOS, Linux, Windows)
QMAKE_CXX=…: Used to overwrite the C++ compiler binary
CONFIG+=release / CONFIG+=debug: Indicates that the build is meant for release or development, respectively. On non-Windows systems CONFIG+=release is the default, while on Windows, both a release and a development build are generated by default
CONFIG+=PENCIL2D_NIGHTLY: Marks the build as a nightly build
CONFIG+=PENCIL2D_RELEASE: Marks the build as a released version of Pencil2D
CONFIG+=GIT: Signifies that the git command line program is available and causes information about the current state of the repository to be included in the build. Currently this does nothing without CONFIG+=PENCIL2D_NIGHTLY
CONFIG+=NO_TESTS: Disables unit tests

Please note that there is little benefit in using CONFIG+=NIGHTLY or CONFIG+=GIT in development builds; in fact these options might prevent build acceleration tools such as ccache from working properly.

Common Build Configurations

Development builds: CONFIG+=debug
Nightly builds: CONFIG+=release CONFIG+=PENCIL2D_NIGHTLY CONFIG+=GIT
Release builds: CONFIG+=release CONFIG+=PENCIL2D_RELEASE CONFIG+=GIT
Windows legacy build: CONFIG+=release CONFIG+=PENCIL2D_RELEASE CONFIG+=WIN_LEGACY CONFIG+=NO_TESTS
- This build should use Visual Studio 2013 Community and Qt 5.6.3 (VS2013 32bit)