jamulussoftware
Place build generated files in separate folder
Describe the bug
Currently, the build generated files e.g. .moc are scattered in the whole root directory. This is the case especially on manual builds.
https://github.com/jamulussoftware/jamulus/pull/2588 tried to clean them up by moving them into a separate folder however it was not successful.
This is annoying as there are a lot of files.
Please note that if the files are moved, the .gitignore file needs to be updated too.
To Reproduce
Run a build on e.g. Linux and see the files in the root.
Expected behavior
Have a clean root directory.
Questions/Comments
- Why is this a problem? I think overview is the main issue
- Cross compilation is more difficult
- Make clean removes them
QtCreator does out-of-tree builds by default.
make distclean; qmake && make && make clean (with any qmake / make options) keeps the project root clean and leaves the user with the option of not running make clean.
make needs to remain re-runnable from a point of failure with any proposed solution.
I have a simple solution for this, which is in my queue for raising a PR soon.
