[Qt-creator] confused about QtCreators behaviour

Geronimo Ma. Hernandez geronimo013 at gmx.com
Fri Jun 1 13:43:37 CEST 2012


Hello,

after that very long discussion about buildsystems, I wanted to try out a 
qmake-project.

So I used QtCreator with "new project" / QtApplication / Qt Gui Application 
and replaced all files created by the files from a Qt-demo from my system (qt 
4.6.3).
Project sources tree view looks very nice - exactly the way I like it.

After hitting the build icon, lots of errors came up.
I expected all running fine, since I did not change anything yet.

I looked at the filesystem and there was no Makefile or the like.
So I started qmake from the commandline followed by a make.
Everything worked fine and I got an executable, that runs as expected.


Could it be, that QtCreator does not use the build-system from my linuxbox, 
but uses its own?
And could it furthermore be true, that QtCreator, or the build system it uses, 
uses the libraries provided by QtCreator, instead of the libraries from my 
linuxbox?

I think, that behaviour is not desired. At least I don't like it.
I don't mind, if QtCreator uses its own Qt-Libraries for running, but it 
should not use them building my projects. I'd like to build projects, that run 
on my system with the libraries from my system.


kind regards

Gero



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