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

Frédéric Marchal frederic.marchal at wowtechnology.com
Tue Sep 24 14:21:04 CEST 2013


> On 24.09.2013 12:08, Frédéric Marchal wrote:
> > Saddly, QtCreator enforces shadow building when opening a new project.
> 
> It does not.
> 
> Creator defaults to whatever you have set up as "Default build
> directory" in Tools>Options>Build & Run. Out of the box that is set up
> for shadow building, but you are free to change that. You can even do
> that from a custom installer that you can provide for your developers.
> 
> > The
> > developer must know/remember to disable it in the project configuration
> > tab just after opening the new project.
> 
> If you do not like the default on a per-project level you are also free
> to change the build directory to the source directoy in the target setup
> page of the wizard/Unconfigured project page: Just use '.' for the build
> directory.

Both methods make checking out a new project easier. Thank you.

May I suggest that it would be easier to find if the unconfigured project 
wizard had a checkbox named "Shadow build" (as in the project Build Settings).

Frederic



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