[Qt-creator] QtCreator Plugins that depends on external libraries

[Ziller Eike]

> On Jan 29, 2015, at 10:07 PM, Carel Combrink <carel.combrink at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> With my SpellChecker Plugin a few comments were received about trying to integrate the plugin into the main QtCreator code (upstreaming it). 
> 
> Regarding this I would like to know: Say I get the code to conform to the QtCreator coding standard, how would I handle the external dependencies of the plugin? At the moment the plugin depends on the Hunspell spellchecker library to do the actual spell checking. For this it needs the headers as well as the library to build and link the plugin. 
> 
> On Linux this is not such a big issue, but on Windows it can be a bit more problematic.
> 
> Any help in this regard will be appreciated.

As a first step you could do it the way it is done for the clang code model plugin:
The user can set a (environment) variable to point the build to the library and its headers + there is a fallback that tries to find the library from the system.
If that is successful, the plugin is built.

Br, Eike

> PS: I have just created a new release that now also checks String Literals.
> 
> Regards,
> 
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