Qt MOC generated code documentation

Question

I am designing a user interface in Qt, and for longevity reasons I'd like to not require the Qt Meta-Object Compiler be used in future builds. I know the MOC parses certain macros in standard C++ code and generates C++ code based on these.

What I'd like to know is: where is the documentation of this generated code? I'd like to write the generated code directly into my relevant classes. While this might be cumbersome to do now, it will make the UI more stable in the long term by avoiding any issues if Qt disappears and the MOC ceases to exist.

Thanks!

Edit 1: I am designing a Qt based UI in Visual Studio (NOT Qt Creator), for a C++ application that is not based on the Qt framework. I want to be able to distribute code that can be built as pure C++ with Qt code linked from specific libraries that will be packaged in. I want to be able to build this code on systems that do not have Qt installed. Hence the desire to avoid MOC. I'm not trying to offend any Qt fans out there, Qt is great. However, I need something a little different on this project, so suggestions to "Just use MOC" are not at all helpful.

Edit 2: I'm man enough to admit when I'm wrong. After some more thought and research it's clearly not worth trying what I was planning on doing. I'll just have to save the MOC generated code and distribute it as well. Thanks everyone.

Answer 1

Putting moc output verbatim into your code makes your code less portable, not more, as the moc output format changes more often (currently version 67) than source-incompatible major versions of Qt (currently version 5).

Answer 2

It seems to be on the whole not worth it to try to circumvent the MOC, as everyone here has pointed out to me. My solution will be saving the MOC generated source files in source control and packaging them along with the main application code for distribution.