[CMake] CMake/Ninja support in Qt Creator

[Wouter van Kleunen]

Peter,

I guess removing just the build directory also seems to work.

I agree with your objections of the location the user file, the source
directory should stay clean. An inattentive moment and you have the file
in your version control.

Anyway, it seems to build now using an older version of ninja. However
when I use the 1.0.0 version of ninja, I get the following error:

ninja: FATAL: unknown placeholder '%o' in $NINJA_STATUS

With the ninja downloaded from here:
https://github.com/martine/ninja/downloads

Wouter

> Yes, starting from scratch helps in most cases. But with cmake
> we are used to simply clean the build dir, which doesn't help here.
>
> It is a problem that creator's .user file is stored beside
> the CMakeLists.txt: you can't check it in because of absolute paths,
> a clean of the repository removes it, a buggy setup
> is remember by creator, and it violates the principle
> "don't touch the the source". I told them, but they don't care.
>
> Peter
>
>
>
> On 19.09.2012 08:08, Wouter van Kleunen wrote:
>>
>> Peter,
>>
>> i had 2.8.9-pre3 before, i upgraded to 2.8.9. But only after deleting
>> the CMakeLists user file from qtcreator, deleting the build directory
>> and restarting qtcreator I was able to get the option to build with
>> Ninja.
>>
>> Anyway, it seems to work fine now, and the building is much faster.
>>
>>
>> Wouter
>>
>>
>> Op 18-9-2012 22:50, Peter Kümmel schreef:
>>> Hi Wouter,
>>>
>>> you need the latest cmake version, 2.8.9.
>>>
>>> Under Tools/Options/Build&Run/CMake
>>> the ninja binary could be set, or have it PATH.
>>>
>>> Peter
>>>
>>> On 18.09.2012 22:29, Wouter van Kleunen wrote:
>>>>
>>>> So how do you make it to use ninja ? Should I enable ninja somewhere ?
>>>> Because when I run cmake from the gui it now still generates
>>>> nmakefiles.
>>>>
>>>> Wouter
>>>>
>>>> Op 17-9-2012 18:08, Peter Kümmel schreef:
>>>>> Qt Creator 2.6 is beta now.
>>>>>
>>>>> On github I've uploaded a patched version with Ninja support for
>>>>> CMake
>>>>> based projects:
>>>>>
>>>>>       https://github.com/syntheticpp/qt-creator/downloads
>>>>>
>>>>> When CDB is installed
>>>>>
>>>>> http://doc-snapshot.qt-project.org/qtcreator-2.5/creator-debugger-engines.html#supported-cdb-versions
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> debugging works even with the 32bit/64bit compilers of Visual Studio
>>>>> Express 2012.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Currently I'm trying to bring the patches upstream, but for 2.6 it
>>>>> seems too late.
>>>>>
>>>>> Peter
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