[Qt-creator] CMake and jom support

Joerg Bornemann Joerg.Bornemann at qt.io
Mon Jul 1 12:32:15 CEST 2019


On 6/30/19 14:44, Benjamin TERRIER wrote:

> In the current state, using Qt Creator with CMake and MSVC does not work 
> out of the box.
> 
> The issue is that CMake calls 'jom', but jom.exe is not in the PATH.
> 
> Currently there are 2 solutions:
>   1. Manually adding C:\Qt\Tools\QtCreator\bin to PATH
>   2. Manually change the value of CMAKE_MAKE_PROGRAM
> 
> I have found 2-year-old forum posts complaining about this.
> 
> Is this a known issue? IS there any plan to fix it?

I haven't found any issue in JIRA about this. Please file one.

Though I wonder how much sense jom with CMake still makes. Nowadays you 
can use CMake's ninja backend.


BR,

Joerg


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