[Qt-creator] Automatic creation of Kits inside Qt Creator

[Tobias Hunger]

Hi there,

yes, you can create kits outside of creator.

The installer in fact does just that: It registers the Qt versions,
toolchains, etc. it installs and then sets up a kit. We have a
commandline tool called sdktool for that. It is pretty low-level tool
and it works best to set up all the things you want to automate
manually in Qt Creator first and then copy the values found in your
user settings and then pass those as arguments into sdktool.

Sdktool does currently write system-wide settings though, so that
toolchain will be visible for everybody on that system -- and it will
probably need admin rights to actually write into the global
configuration space. If there is interest we could probably add an
parameter to make it modify the user settings instead. Patches are of
course wellcome:-)

Setting up kits inside a plugin is possible, too: Just use
ProjectExplorer::KitManager and register whatever you need. There are
a couple of examples in the Qt Creator repo. IIRC the android plugin
does register kits as does the Qnx one.

Best Regards,
Tobias

On Sat, Jan 24, 2015 at 9:23 AM, Ariel Molina <ariel at edis.mx> wrote:
> Now that would be awesome.
>
> On Sat, Jan 24, 2015 at 1:54 AM, Matthias Klein <matthias.klein at optimeas.de>
> wrote:
>>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I am working with a lot of different embedded toolchains which contains
>> Qt4.
>> At the moment I have to create a "Kit" entry by hand for every toolchain
>> (Compiler, Debugger, qmake , Sysroot, ...).
>>
>> Is it possible to create such a kit on the fly using environment
>> variables or something like that?
>> I would like to create a script inside the toolchains which start Qt
>> Creator with the right settings ...
>>
>>
>> Thanks a lot for your help!
>>
>> Best regards,
>> Matthias
>>
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