[Qt-creator] CMake project parser/generator "flattens" projects

[Bryce Schober]

On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 4:09 PM, Andre Poenitz
<andre.poenitz at mathematik.tu-chemnitz.de> wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 07:55:52AM +0100, Luc Vlaming wrote:
>> Hi everyone,
>>
>> Since i'm working quite a lot with qtcreator, I did already make myself a
>> small patch to the cmake project parser (the codeblocks project file parser
>> actually) to use the compiler defines that are in it. However, it seems that
>> qtcreator actually supports multiple projects in one "solution" like visual
>> studio if i'm correct. So far I've only worked with cmake projects in
>> qtcreator since we do not really have anything else. I was wondering how
>> good multi-project support is in qtcreator though. Would it be sensible to
>> rewrite the cmake parser so it supports multiple projects in one solution?
>
> Qt Creator "sessions" are not equivalent to a VS "solution", it's a
> collection of projects that a user has open at a given time.
>
> If you want to handle a collection of project that belong together, you'd
> use a single "SUBDIRS" project. Those can be arbitrarily nested and do
> (contrary to the name...) no have to consist of subdirectories, but can
> refer to arbitrary .pro files and directories.
>
> Assuming your cmake project builds "one" project consisting of several
> libraries and executables, SUBDIRs is the way to go.

Can SUBDIRS projects be used with generic makefile projects as well?
Or just QMake and CMake projects?

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Bryce Schober