[Interest] qmake's visual studio generator does not handle recursive subdir templates

[Bo Thorsen]

Den 23-11-2015 kl. 20:09 skrev Roland Winklmeier:
> I'm working together with a team on a medium complex project. Our build
> system is qmake and since some of us had previous experience with cmake,
> we introduced a project structure with subdirs. It looks similar to the
> following:
>
> project.pro (subdirs)
> |-- src.pro (subdirs)
>      |-- lib1.pro (lib)
>      |-- lib2.pro (lib)
>      |-- plugins.pro (subdirs)
>          |-- plugin1.pro (lib)
>          |-- plugin2.pro (lib)
> [...]
>
> This gives us a nice hierarchical structure and all works nicely as long
> as we use QtCreator. But some of us prefer to use native IDE's like
> Visual Studio. When trying to create a Visual Studio solution from the
> above (with qmake -tp vc -spec win32-msvc2013 -r), a *.sln is created
> for each subdirs template instead of tracking them as child projects. So
> project.sln does not contain any projects.
>
> Do we hit a missing feature/bug in qmake or is it me using the subdirs
> template incorrect?
> I got the idea from qtbase which also has recursive subdirs.

This definitely works, I use it all the time. You need to show us some 
of your pro files before we can help you.

Do you have "TEMPLATE = subdirs" in the file that has the SUBDIRS list?

Bo Thorsen,
Director, Viking Software.

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