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Appendix D: Using QEF on Microsoft Platforms

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This chapter describes the setting up and using QEF on Microsoft Windows platforms. The Windows development environment is rich and complex. QEF provides a number of tools and facilities to make it easier to manage larger projects on this platform.


D.1) Microsoft Interface Definition Language


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D.2) Pre-compiler Headers


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D.3) Building DLLs


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D.4) Building Windows and MFC Applications


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D.5) Building ActiveX/Active Template Objects


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D.6) Working with Visual Studio

Visual Studio is a powerful Integrated Development Environment that provides may tools for building and debugging applications for Windows platforms. QEF supports VS through the qmsdev command. Once you have created your object tree with mkqtree, cd into the directory where you wish to work and run qmsdev. This will create a VS project (.dsp) file and workspace (.dsw) file. You can now open these file in Visual Studio work as you normally would. When VS does a build, it will run qef instead of using its default build mechanism.

D.7) Targeting Different Environments

The Windows platform provides a number of targets for which you can build applications. The simplest is console-mode applications. To build these using QEF no special options need to be set. windows-mode and MFC applications are supported by the WIN_APP option. ActiveX/Active Template applications are supported by the WIN_ATX option.

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