[Development] build [any] qt-based project ising cmake , outside of qtcreator

[Konstantin Tokarev]

25.11.2016, 22:12, "Ernst Maurer" <ernst.maurer at gmail.com>:
> hello
>
> just faced with a requirement to build qt/cmake based project from command line or another IDE, and could not. what is a qtcreator magic which helps to do this successfully?
>
> tried to build simplest sample project from actual documentation here (http://doc.qt.io/qt-5/cmake-manual.html) , the same problem.
>
> it looks like cmake can't find all required .cmake scripts, I don't see the instructions to set the paths to all .cmake scripts for required modules.
>
> I suppose qtcreator does some "tuning" the project implicitly??
>
> this is the output for sample cmakelists from doc page sample above:
>
> cmake.exe -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Debug -G "CodeBlocks - MinGW Makefiles" C:\dev\workspace\algolist.v2
> CMake Warning at CMakeLists.txt:13 (find_package):
>   By not providing "FindQt5Widgets.cmake" in CMAKE_MODULE_PATH this project
>   has asked CMake to find a package configuration file provided by
>   "Qt5Widgets", but CMake did not find one.
>
>   Could not find a package configuration file provided by "Qt5Widgets" with
>   any of the following names:
>
>     Qt5WidgetsConfig.cmake
>     qt5widgets-config.cmake
>
>   Add the installation prefix of "Qt5Widgets" to CMAKE_PREFIX_PATH or set
>   "Qt5Widgets_DIR" to a directory containing one of the above files.  If
>   "Qt5Widgets" provides a separate development package or SDK, be sure it has
>   been installed.

Hi,

The above message means that you need to add -DCMAKE_PREFIX_PATH=$QTDIR to your cmake arguments, where $QTDIR is a path to your Qt installation

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Konstantin