[Qt-creator] proposals for generic project manager

[Petar Perisin]

I wrote parser for make output :-)

I don't know if it is 'make -p -n' one (but I did use '-n' flag), but I do
know that all include paths in make output start with:

' -I/fullpath'

and all pre-processor defines start with

' -DNAME=VALUE'

all I did was parse this 2 things and viola.

Now, I do not know if this is regular make or make -p -n, but I do have
parser for this at least. I even made new custom wizard for it. Now one of
my collegues was having problems with it, so I need to generalize it little
more. Maybe then I could share it.

 :-)

Regards,
Petar




On Mon, Sep 23, 2013 at 12:37 PM, Ziller Eike <Eike.Ziller at digia.com> wrote:

>
> On 14.08.2013, at 12:09, Sven Goericke <sven.goericke at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > On 08/14/2013 11:51 AM, Daniel Teske wrote:
> >> On Wednesday 14 Aug 2013 11:46:08 Sven Goericke wrote:
> >>> Hi,
> >>> while implementing at least the "Add New Folder" option in generic
> >>> projects (and in turn get an overview how project management works) i
> >>> got some ideas for improvements:
> >>>
> >>> 1. Instead of maintaing a "<project>.files" list with files belonging
> to
> >>> the project define a set of file-extensions which should be used in the
> >>> project. So you no longer need to update the <project>.files outside
> >>> Creator but it will pickup all needed files on startup.
> >> No, that's in that way by design. Others have written scripts to easily
> update
> >> the .files file from their real build system. Since Creator watches
> that file,
> >> the project tree gets automatically updated. That's not possible with
> globs
> >> without watching the directory tree. (Which is impossible to do.)
> >>
> > Well, we use a make-target for that:
> > update_qtcreator_files:
> >       $(verbose)find \
> >               $(filter-out ./,$(foreach
> > component,$(component_names),$($(component)_dir))) \
> >               $(foreach
> component,$(component_unittest_names),$($(component)_dir))
> > build Makefile version -type f > $(project).files
> >       $(verbose)find . -name '*.[sd]dl' -type f | sed -e 's:\./::g' >>
> > $(project).files
> >       $(verbose)find \
> >               $(foreach
> component,$(component_names),$($(component)_include_dir)) \
> >               $(foreach
> > component,$(component_unittest_names),$($(component)_include_dir))
> > -maxdepth 0 > $(project).includes
> >
> > It works, but i think it's annoying because you have to call "make
> > update_qtcreator_files" anywhere outside Creator. If you say there's no
> > other way i must accept that. But maybe we could add a menu or at least
> > a shortcut and an option where users can specify an arbitary command as
> > the "update creator files" command. Meaning one would only need to use a
> > shortcut to update the files.
>
> Tools > External (> Configure …) ?
>
> ++ Eike
>
> >>> 2. Preprocess-Makros per build-configuration. This should also be
> >>> possible. Defining them per build-config would at least help to
> distinct
> >>> between Debug and Release builds (and get the code-model updated per
> >>> config).
> >> How would the .config file look like then?
> >>
> > I would need to figure out that. Because the you can use conditional
> > Macros in the .config file (yes i use that for the different target
> > platforms i support) maybe one could do something like
> >
> > #if defined(QTC_GENERIC_BUILD_CONFIG_NAME)
> > #... (user defines here
> > #endif
> >
> > and add the QTC_GENERIC_BUILD_CONFIG_NAME to the defines for the
> > code-model when selecting the configuration in Creator. It's just an
> > idea, maybe it has to be done in another way.
> >
> >>> 3. Get rid of the default "all" and "clean" targets. Even if they are
> >>> widely used those targets are not a requirement in any generic
> >>> build-system. Also (as the word "generic" suggests even don't assume
> >>> that "make" is used as build-command).
> >> Yes, it should be just a command to run, which by default can be make.
> >>
> > Defaulting to make would be Ok (i guess most of Creator users depending
> > on the generic project manager use it with make)...
> > Sven
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