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authorMartin Smith <martin.smith@qt.io>2018-02-14 09:57:43 +0100
committerMartin Smith <martin.smith@qt.io>2018-02-16 11:44:16 +0000
commitaecf79e838ed039e749b6e76503bf8f49d59258d (patch)
tree955690c5a2ab20f08630a543df62d89403e62e7b
parent4044157abe77899511561fd3adece04cb2ee4b18 (diff)
doc: Warn users about qdoc's clang dependency
From Qt 5.11, QDoc requires clang from LLVM 3.9 or later. This new dependency must be listed in the Qt documentation. This update adds a note to the Getting Started with Qt page that refers the user to the QDoc manual for further instructions. Change-Id: Ia308400c855d19b6391d9239ab74b060e931cd50 Task-number: QTBUG-65762 Reviewed-by: Mitch Curtis <mitch.curtis@qt.io>
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@@ -76,6 +76,13 @@
Use the Maintenance Tool under \e{<install_dir>} to add components and to
update or remove installed components.
+ \note From Qt 5.11, \l{QDoc Manual}{QDoc}, the Qt documentation generation
+ tool, requires \l{http://clang.llvm.org}{clang} from LLVM 3.9 or greater for
+ parsing C++ code. If you intend to use \l{QDoc Manual}{QDoc} to generate
+ documentation for your own projects, or if you intend to build the Qt
+ documentation locally from your Qt sources, see \l{Getting Started with QDoc}
+ for details.
+
\section2 Platform Requirements
Developing applications on different platforms are covered in the platform