[Qt-creator] QtCreator and CMake - projects getting tired...

[Paweł Rutka]

Hi
I sometimes see the same issue, ie. When changing branch and content
differs..

Regards,
Paweł

pt., 1.11.2019, 09:03 użytkownik Cornelis Bockemühl <cornelis at bockemuehl.ch>
napisał:

> I know that probably I should update eventually: my QtCreator is version
> 4.9.0 - and maybe the issue will go away!? However it is hard to tell
> immediately because it happens only sporadically, so I could not reproduce
> it on purpose. And right now it just happened again, so I am taking the
> opportunity. Anyway, I work with CMake, and my guess is that it happens
> only with this combination. (By the way, I am working with CMake version
> 3.14.0, Windows 10 64-bit, MSVC2015 and Qt 5.11.2).
>
> For myself I call this phenomenon "the QtCreator is getting tired".
> Meaning: it needs a break.
>
> Typically it happens during a phase of many changes in a project setup.
> Like the project is complex, but not even once run through a successful
> build, so I have to change dependencies here, add another CMakeLists.txt
> there, and other such changes that may affect the whole or parts of the
> setup. And if I have done this a few times, and then I try another build, I
> only get the following message:
>
> "Configuration is faulty. Check the Issues view for details."
>
> And in the issues view I am getting this:
>
> "A CMake tool must be set up for building. Configure a CMake tool in the
> kit options."
>
> Ok, this is all nonsense, because I have such a tool configured for long,
> so it is useless to even try following this advice. But I know this for a
> long time already: "the QtCreator is tired and needs a break."
>
> So I simply close it. And after a few seconds I start it again. (Right, it
> recovers really quickly!) And after going back to my project, everything is
> fine again! No missing CMake configuration or whatever - which was
> obviously already not true in the first place.
>
> Right now I am only reporting this because it is a bit "ugly", and long
> ago when it first happened it really worried me indeed - and I tried to fix
> some configuration problems that do not exist. Now I know the thing, and I
> simply restart QtCreator - and everything is fine again!
>
> Best regards,
> Cornelis
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