[Qt-creator] Code completion is unable to find header files

[Sergey Shambir]

I just found that QtCreator 2.5.0 handles PGKCONFIG variable and founds 
SDL.h. QtCreator from trunk doesn't.

Probably it's regression.

31.12.2012 21:56, Nikos Chantziaras пишет:
> But if it exists, it will not be ignored, which is a problem.  For
> example, the include like should be:
>
>     -I/usr/local/SDL-1.2
>
> *not*:
>
>     -I/usr/local/SDL -I/usr/local/SDL-1.2
>
> Also not:
>
>     -I/usr/local/SDL-1.2 -I/usr/local/SDL
>
> Yes, this is a Creator issue with code completion.  It does not affect
> the build.  I need to get Creator to understand that "SDL.h" is in
> /usr/include/SDL.
>
> On 31/12/12 17:57, Sergey Shambir wrote:
>> If file listed in INCLUDEPATH not exists, it will be ignored.
>>
>>            CONFIG += link_pkgconfig
>>            PKGCONFIG += sdl
>>
>> This settings ignored only by QtCreator C++ engine or build fails too?
>>
>> 31.12.2012 14:33, Nikos Chantziaras пишет:
>>> I forgot to mention that I know about this, but this can potentially
>>> also break portability, since it might preempt the directory reported by
>>> pkg-config.
>>>
>>>
>>> On 31/12/12 12:26, Orgad Shaneh wrote:
>>>> Add in your pro file:
>>>> INCLUDEPATH += /usr/include/SDL
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Mon, Dec 31, 2012 at 12:19 PM, Nikos Chantziaras <realnc at gmail.com
>>>> <mailto:realnc at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>        I've run into a nasty problem with Qt Creator (I'm using 2.6.1 on Gentoo
>>>>        Linux) where it can't find header files I include and thus code
>>>>        completion for anything in those headers isn't working.
>>>>
>>>>        Case in point:
>>>>
>>>>            #include <SDL.h>
>>>>
>>>>        Creator can't find it because the full path to that header is:
>>>>
>>>>            /usr/include/SDL/SDL.h
>>>>
>>>>        However, I don't want to use:
>>>>
>>>>            #include <SDL/SDL.h>
>>>>
>>>>        instead.  That's not the correct way to do it, as it breaks portability.
>>>>           Some systems don't use "SDL/" but can have that header in
>>>>        "SDL1.2/" or
>>>>        "SDL12/" or "SDL-1.2/" or whatever.  The correct way to do this is to
>>>>        use pkg-config.  In my project file:
>>>>
>>>>            CONFIG += link_pkgconfig
>>>>            PKGCONFIG += sdl
>>>>
>>>>        Qt Creator is not able to pick that up.  So as a workaround, which seems
>>>>        to work fine with generic projects, I provided a "ProjectName.includes"
>>>>        file with this in it:
>>>>
>>>>            /usr/include/SDL
>>>>
>>>>        But Creator doesn't seem to care.  This works just fine for non-qmake
>>>>        projects.  But with qmake projects, Creator seems to ignore *.includes
>>>>        files?
>>>>
>>>>        What can I do?
>>>>
>>>>        This is of course not limited to SDL. The same problem arises with
>>>>        anything that uses pkg-config to provide include paths and you're not
>>>>        supposed to hardcode the path prefix into your #include directives.
>
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