[Qt-creator] Disable shadow build permanently for a project.

Frédéric Marchal frederic.marchal at wowtechnology.com
Tue Sep 24 11:51:39 CEST 2013


> 24.09.2013, 12:56, "Frédéric Marchal" <frederic.marchal at wowtechnology.com>:
> >>  24.09.2013, 05:14, "Joseph Crowell" <joseph.w.crowell at gmail.com>:
> >>>  Is there a config that can be added to the .pro file or something that
> >>>  can be uploaded to git which would automatically disable shadow
> >>> building on fresh clones of a project? I have a project with data
> >>> files in the run folder and a version tool which runs on each compile
> >>> to generate a version header. Both of these things break when using
> >>> shadow builds. In cases like this it would be nice to be able to
> >>> disable shadow build on a project level. I don't think I am the only
> >>> Qt Creator user that would like this. It would eliminate a bit of
> >>> instruction from our wiki as well.
> >> 
> >>  All generated files should be placed into build directory.
> > 
> > The problem is about manually constructed files.
> > 
> > The files can be dynamically loaded images, lists of messages, I/O
> > mapping files, and so on.
> 
> Since your executable is in build directory, there should be no problem.

The manually created files are in the source directory. There lies the 
problem.

Frederic



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