[Qt-creator] QT-Creator with GIT version control

[André Pönitz]

On Tuesday 01 November 2011 09:00:50 ext Frans Klaver wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 1, 2011 at 8:33 AM, Uwe Fechner <u.fechner at tudelft.nl> wrote:
> 
> > But when I have checked out our repository on a new machine, I want to
> > be able to do:
> >
> > qmake
> > make
> >
> > or similar.
> >
> > But this doesn't work, because qmake is not creating a shadow build directory.
> > Then I have to open the project manually with QT creator, adjust the settings
> > for the build directory and build it.
> >
> > This is annoying, because we have very many projects in our repository and
> > I have adjust these settings manually again and again.
> >
> > Questions:
> > 1) is it possible, to build the .pro.user file with a script?
> > 2) is it possible, to change the way, that QT-creator works in such a way,
> >    that it doesn't not store absolute file paths in the .pro.user files?
> > 3) is it possible, to use qmake to create a .pro.user file, that defines
> >    a shadow build directory, e.g. ../<project-name>-build-desktop
> 
> You might be interested in
> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5171896/manually-configuring-shadow-build-in-qmake
> 
> It should be quite similar to how CMake works:
> 
> mkdir build
> cd build
> cmake ..
> make
> 
> So for qmake:
> 
> mkdir build
> cd build
> qmake ..
> make

Except that qmake likes to have the build directory in parallel to the source dir, i.e. 

 mkdir ../build
 cd ../build
 qmake ../src
 make

Andre'