[CMake] QtCreator Comments - was [CMake generators (Xcode and Unix Makefile)]

Alexander Neundorf a.neundorf-work at gmx.net
Thu Apr 16 15:38:26 EDT 2009


On Thursday 16 April 2009, Michael Jackson wrote:
...
> Actually, the latest release candidate of QtCreator has "basic"
> makefile support so hopefully that would mature more in the near
> future. I also had the opportunity to chat with one of the QtCreator
> developers about the CMake support in QtCreator and basically
> generating a CodeBlocks file behind the scenes (which could take a
> while for large projects) so that they can then parse the xml to find
> include directories, link flags, compile flags and all that. There was
> also information that was _missing_ from the xml that was actually
> needed by QtCreator. Turns out the Visual Studio project file has
> everything that is needed but obviously only available on Windows
> systems. Basically what this boils down to is there may need to be a
> new generator for QtCreator. This would require cooperation between
> the QtCreator team and the developers creating that generator so that
> everything that is needed is put into the generator. This will end up
> being kind of a boot strapping process at first but in the end I think
> would be well worth it for both CMake and QtCreator.
>     I am currently buried with work so the most I can do is just
> dream. If someone else wants to start something that would be great.
> You can usually find the QtCreators on their IRC channel.

I'm in loose contact with Daniel, the cmake-in-QtCreator developer.
He was quite happy for now.
Maybe we can just add some tags to the CodeBlocks project file, so that 
QtCreator gets everything it needs. Ideally we should coordinate this with 
the CodeBlocks developers.
Do you remember what was missing ?
One thing which currently is not possible is to compile just a single file 
(which would be really nice...)

Alex


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