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    Default Specific compiler options for specific source files in qmake?

    On qmake (QtCreator) is there a way to set specific compiler options for specific source files?

    I use some typeinfo/dynamic_cast in specific locations but I'd prefer to not have all the classes names around in the Release final executable. I thought that compiling with rtti only those modules would suffit. Otherwise the final exe would be fully documented with all the class names and I don't want to (or is there some other feature or strategy to deal with this?)

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    Default Re: Specific compiler options for specific source files in qmake?

    There is a way to do it but it is certainly not something you can write down in two lines of code or with a click on a button. You'd have to provide a custom compiler definition for qmake. This is described in the docs as well as in our wiki. But I'm not convinced your approach is a good idea.
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    Default Re: Specific compiler options for specific source files in qmake?

    Thanks for the reply. Please feel free to elaborate if you are willing to. What do you think is the bad idea, compiling with separate options or the fact of wanting to somehow obfuscate the executable?

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    Default Re: Specific compiler options for specific source files in qmake?

    I think it is a bad idea to compile one file with rtti enabled and others with it disabled. Either enable it everywhere or disable it everywhere. It is best to avoid dynamic_cast altogether. Maybe you can substitute it with qobject_cast?
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    Default Re: Specific compiler options for specific source files in qmake?

    I agree that using different compiler flags for different source files is a bad idea. Many flags are mutually exclusive, and using them incorrectly in different source files will produce compile time errors, or - much worse - runtime errors that are extremely difficult to pin down.

    If you insist, however, the simplest approach would be to gather all your source files requiring a particular set of flags into a single project, and build them into a library that is linked by another project. The flags set in the project files for each can then be different.

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    Default Re: Specific compiler options for specific source files in qmake?

    Many thanks for your suggestions. I think I have a quick and dirty solution but that works, after compiling the impudic names are on the executable in a single place so rewriting them with meaningless strings of the same length does the trick (under Windows seems to work well)

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