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

[Mike Jackson]

On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 3:38 PM, Alexander Neundorf
<a.neundorf-work at gmx.net> wrote:
> 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
>

I don't remember what was missing. If QtCreator can just have the
ability for me to point to a Makefile and say "use that makefile" then
I am happy, of course debugging would be nice..

Mike