[Qt-creator] Generating .pro file from a Makefile?

Coda Highland chighland at gmail.com
Thu Mar 15 16:52:59 CET 2012


I believe you may find some use of the Generic Project template, which
will allow you to use your Makefile as-is and store non-build project
settings in a separate file.

/s/ Adam

On Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 10:31 AM, Murphy, Sean M.
<sean.murphy at gd-ais.com> wrote:
> I may be barking up the wrong tree here, but here goes:
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> I’ve got a program written in C that I’ve inherited from a former co-worker,
> that comes with little to no documentation.  It has a working Makefile
> already.
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> I’m attempting to learn how it works via reading the source code.  Since I’m
> fairly comfortable with Qt Creator, especially features that would be
> helpful in this case such as Follow Symbol Under Cursor, Find Usages, etc.,
> I’d like to bring it in under Creator, ideally just by parsing the existing
> Makefile and creating a .pro file that matches.
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> Is there an easy way to do that?  All I know of right now is to just create
> a new project, and manually add all the .h & .c files by hand (or doing a
> qmake -project).  But in some ways, I’m not sure I even want to create a
> .pro file that is capable of creating a Makefile, since I don’t really want
> to overwrite an existing, perfectly working Makefile…
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> Sean
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