[Qt-creator] build settings for cross platform? multiple svn checkouts on each development computer

[Tobias Hunger]

Hi Danny!

Sorry, I really do not see anything to fix in creator for the following 
reasons:

  * No variable is ignored. DESTDIR is relative to the build directory, 
so it is set and used correctly (but points to a location where the 
stuff it is looking for is not found).

  * No build pathes are changed. Everything is put exactly where specified.

  * Creator does not interfere with anything set in the .pro-file.



Your example project layout is basically three separate projects, tied 
together using relative pathes so that the libraries are found. That 
does indeed break in the presence of shadow building (or even more minor 
changes like the user checking out these three projects into separate 
directories, renaming some directory, etc.). I do not know your project 
requirements and there is probably a good reason for doing things the 
way you did, but I would really suggest making the build system more robust.

The preferred way is of course (as you already suggested) to bundle the 
libraries and the application using them together into one SUBDIRS 
project. That way you do get dependency tracking and the libraries will 
get automatically rebuild when they are changed. This further should 
ease packaging of the complete thing.

If you are reusing the same libraries together with several applications 
you can of course have several top-level SUBDIRS project files (one for 
each application, referencing the application itself and all libraries 
used by it).

Best Regards,
Tobias

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Tobias Hunger
Software Engineer
Nokia, Qt Development Frameworks

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