[Qt-creator] Building Qt Creator and QBS separately

[Andrzej Telszewski]

On 22/04/16 20:52, Ralf Nolden wrote:
> Am Freitag, 22. April 2016, 18:36:13 schrieb Eike Ziller:
>>> On Apr 22, 2016, at 18:39, Andrzej Telszewski <atelszewski at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I struggled with this for FreeBSD ports, too, to package up qbs separately and
> qtcreator (without a duplicate of qbs). The solution for me was to build QBS
> first and install it, then build creator with:
>
> QMAKE_ARGS+=    QBS_INSTALL_DIR=${PREFIX}
> CONFIG+=qbs_enable_project_file_updates
>
> That solved the problem for the qbsprojectmanager plugin to pick up the
> installed QBS.
>

I tried building QBS with:

qmake-qt5 qbs.pro \
   QBS_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr \
   QBS_LIBRARY_DIRNAME=lib$LIBDIRSUFFIX
make
make docs
make install INSTALL_ROOT=$PKG

and

qmake-qt5 qbs.pro \
   QBS_INSTALL_PREFIX=/ \
   QBS_LIBRARY_DIRNAME=lib$LIBDIRSUFFIX
make
make docs
make install INSTALL_ROOT=$PKG/usr

and then Qt Creator with:

qmake-qt5 \
   IDE_LIBRARY_BASENAME="lib$LIBDIRSUFFIX" \
   LLVM_INSTALL_DIR=/usr \
   QMAKE_ARGS+=QBS_INSTALL_DIR=/usr \
   CONFIG+=qbs_enable_project_file_updates \
   qtcreator.pro
make
make install INSTALL_ROOT=$PKG/usr

but in both cases QBS is built during Qt Creator built, so the 
pre-installed QBS is not used.

I'm using QBS git with head at c4ba5e0 and Qt Creator 4.0.0rc1.

Any further pointers?

>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> Is it possible to build QBS and Qt Creator separately?
>>>
>>> I mean, I know I can build and install QBS without Qt Creator, but later
>>> on, if I build Qt Creator, won't it overwrite the already installed QBS?
>>
>> If you build the qbs from the Qt Creator sources, that will produce a
>> completely independent qbs install in <qtcreator>/libexec/…..
>

Well, not that independent, since QBS ends up in /usr/bin in that case.

>>
>>> I mean: is it possible to first install QBS and later on, when building Qt
>>> Creator, tell it to not build QBS, but use the already installed one?
>>
>> Should be possible by settings QBS_INSTALL_DIR (env or qmake variable) to
>> the alternative QBS installation location (which needs to have headers as
>> well).
>  It should then not build the qbs that is included in Qt Creator,
>> but build against the one in QBS_INSTALL_DIR.
>> Br, Eike
>>
>>
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>>> Best regards,
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-- 
Best regards,
Andrzej Telszewski