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

[Cristian Tibirna]

On Thursday 15 March 2012 22:19:43 Mathias Hasselmann wrote:
> Excuse my ignorance if this option was discussed and dismissed already,
> or if just entirely miss the point...
> 
> But how about choosing "Import Project" -> "Import Existing Project"
> from the project wizard? Sure, adding and removing files in such an
> imported Makefile project is painful, so in the long run you might want
> to convert the project. But for getting started, for understanding the
> project structure, for finishing some initial tasks, this approach
> should be good enough.

And this is what we do at my work. We "Import(ed) Existing project", so that 
the make commands are available for free (and this gives us priceless 
compiling error parsing towards the "Issues" pane). And we just added a target 
(called qtcreator_config) to our makefile that generates "manually" (by some 
nicely crafted grep(1)s and find(1)s) the myproject.files and 
myproject.includes files (we even add library includes to the .includes file).

And with the latest qtcreator (master?), each time we add/remove a file to the 
project we just

make qtcreator_config

and QtCreator automatically rereads the thusly refreshed .files and .includes. 
Pure joy .

Hope this helps

-- 
Cristian Tibirna
KDE developer .. tibirna at kde.org .. http://www.kde.org