[QBS] qbs & qt creator

[Kurt Keller]

Am Donnerstag, den 22.05.2014
schrieb Christian Kandeler <christian.kandeler at digia.com>:

> On 05/22/2014 02:29 PM, Kurt Keller wrote:
> > Am Donnerstag, den 22.05.2014
> > schrieb Christian Kandeler <christian.kandeler at digia.com>:
> >
> >> On 05/22/2014 11:32 AM, Kurt Keller wrote:
> >>> I have Qt Creator 3.1.1 and Qt 5.3.0 successfully compiled and
> >>> installed into a single folder, called qtdevenv-5.3. I can use Qt
> >>> Creator with qbs projects - no problem.
> >>>
> >>> But how can I install qbs in a way that
> >>>
> >>> - it resides in the same install folder 'qtdevenv-5.3'
> >>> - it does not interfere with the version from Qt Creator
> >>> - it can be called from shell
> >>> - it uses the same profiles (and the same build directories) as
> >>>     Qt Creator uses.
> >>
> >> Let me see whether I understand you correctly: You want to run the
> >> command-line version of qbs and use it on the same projects that you
> >> build in Qt Creator?
> >
> > Yes - commandline is mostly used to build the products i.e. by cron
> > over night and Qt Creator is used for support/debugging/development.
> >
> >>> I was not able to do that. Some reasons: If I use the bundled Qbs
> >>> from Qt Creator 3.1.1 the Qt modules are missing and (called from
> >>> the shell) qbs says 'Module Qt/core could not be loaded'
> >>
> >> In qbs 1.2, the modules are per-profile. Nothing is missing.
> >
> > What does this mean? I am missing files like printsupport.qbs, xml.qbs
> > etc. (It does work in Qt Creator magically - but I could not find out
> > the magic to get it working from the shell)
> 
> The "magic" is calling "qbs setup-qt", just as before. Only the 
> internals have changed with regards to file locations. But you never 
> refer to those directly anyway.
> 
> >>> If I use qbs 1.1.1 (official downlod from
> >>> https://login.qt.digia.com/downloads the dll's mismatch. (Qt Creator
> >>> Version <> QBS Version)
> >>
> >> Creator 3.1 has qbs 1.2.
> >
> > Correct - but even if I use the same version - the paths for the qbs
> > modules and plugins are different.
> 
> This is due to Creator using its own settings directory, which is 
> necessary in order to be able to run several instances of Creator 
> without conflicts. You can see the command line equivalent of what 
> Creator does when you click on the "Details" button for the qbs build
> step.

So i did a 'jom install INSTALL_ROOT=.../qtdevenv-5.3' to install the Qt
Creator version of qbs (1.2) into my development directory. After that I
had to copy the plugins from lib/qtcreator/qbs to lib/qbs and the modules
from share/qtcreator/qbs/share/qbs to share/qbs and now I can use qbs from
the shell and from qt creator. Hurra!

The only drawback is that after building a product from shell qt creator
does a complete rebuild and vice versa. Is there a chance to fix this too?


Best Regards
Kurt.