[Qt-creator] Building Qt Creator and QBS separately

[Eike Ziller]

> On Apr 23, 2016, at 4:40 PM, Andrzej Telszewski <atelszewski at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 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 \

try removing the "QMAKE_ARGS+=“ whatever that is supposed to mean.

Br, Eike

>  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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