qmake is not the only way to build Qt projects; CMake is quite straightforward and qbs works extremely well, too, though is rarely used in the wild (pity). I'm

qmake is not the only way to build Qt projects; CMake is quite straightforward and qbs works extremely well, too, though is rarely used in the wild (pity). I'm sure other build systems have sugar for Qt as well; CMake and qmake are just wildly popular.