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Creating a GUI linked to a core shared library

The gallery-core shared library is now ready. Let's see how to create the desktop GUI project. We will create a Qt Widgets application sub-project called gallery-desktop. Only the first steps differ from a classic Qt Widgets application. Right-click on the main project, and select ch04-gallery-desktop | New subproject | Application | Qt Widgets Application | Choose.

You will get a nice multi-projects hierarchy like this:

It is now time to link this gallery-desktop application to the gallery-core. You can edit the file gallery-desktop.pro yourself or use the Qt Creator wizard like this: right-click ...

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