[Development] Best practices for hacking Qt in QtCreator?

[Sean Harmer]

On 21/09/2018 08:41, Nils Jeisecke via Development wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> although I'm usually using vim as my primary environment when hacking
> Qt itself it can be tempting to use QtCreator instead for better code
> navigation etc.
>
> Simply opening the .pro file of some Qt submodule does not really work
> out of the box. Lots of complaints about Qt includes not found etc.
> (with clang code model).
>
> Maybe someone is willing to share the secrets on how to configure
> QtCreator for a nice Qt developing experience?

Works fine here as long as you open the project using a kit set up from 
that particular build of Qt. I tend to just build qtbase etc on the 
command line, setup a kit in creator for it, then open qt3d/qt3d.pro and 
it just works.

Cheers,

Sean