Why GAMMARAY_PROBE_ONLY_BUILD implies skipping install?

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GammaRay is a tool to poke around in a Qt-application and also to manipulate the application to some extent.

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Why GAMMARAY_PROBE_ONLY_BUILD implies skipping install? #932

Open Kentzo opened 8 months ago

Kentzo commented 8 months ago

What is the principal reason for skipping installation of headers, pri and cmake files in probe-only builds? In my fork I allowed this installation and nothing bad happened, generated files seem appropriate.

Take a look at https://github.com/KDAB/GammaRay/pull/929, I wonder if this extra variable is necessary at all.

Kentzo commented 8 months ago

My particular problem is that header for the static probe will never get installed.

Kentzo commented 7 months ago

It's feasible to resolve this installation issue + provide better linking experience for static plugins that avoids manual [Q_IMPORT_PLUGIN](https://doc.qt.io/qt-6/qtplugin.html#Q_IMPORT_PLUGIN) (at least for Qt6 users).

I will make a PR once all preliminary changes get merged into the project.