[Qt-creator] Qt Creator not loading CMake project

[Davide Coppola]

Thanks guys, after reading your messages I found the problem!

Qt Creator was overwriting CMAKE_PREFIX_PATH.
Once I added the directories that were set in the shell environment
everything loaded fine.

Thanks again

On Thu, Feb 27, 2020 at 10:28 AM Alexandru Croitor <alexandru.croitor at qt.io>
wrote:

> QtC creates and uses at some point a a qtcsettings.cmake file, which for
> one of my projects contains
>
> set("CMAKE_PREFIX_PATH" "" CACHE "STRING" "" FORCE)
>
> Just a shot in dark, but maybe that affects the initial configuration?
>
> > On 27. Feb 2020, at 16:22, Davide Coppola <vivaladav at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > I tried to start Qt Creator from the command line and unfortunately that
> didn't make any difference.
> >
> > I dug a little in the output panel in Qt Creator and I can confirm the
> problem is definitely the missing entries in CMakeCache.txt
> >
> > In particular for the first module CMake is complaining that an xxx_DIR
> is not set and that variable is indeed missing in the cache file.
> > I yet don't understand how this is possible considering that I am not
> passing any special flag to cmake when I run it from the command line.
> >
> > On Thu, Feb 27, 2020 at 7:44 AM Nick Overdijk <nick at astrant.net> wrote:
> > I usually start Qt Creator (on macos anyway) with "open ~/Qt/Qt
> Creator.app" to make sure the environment is the same as in my shell. If
> that doesn't work, maybe inspect what 'cmake' you are calling from the
> shell, and which one is being used by Qt Creator (Kits -> CMake tab).
> >
> > Cheers!
> >
> > On Thu, Feb 27, 2020 at 1:33 PM Davide Coppola <vivaladav at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I have been struggling with a CMake project and Qt Creator for a while
> and I was wondering if any CMake expert in your dev team could help me to
> figure out what's going on.
> >
> > This project has a root directory containing a main CMakeLists.txt and
> several sub-dirs each with their own file.
> >
> > Everything is fine and a Makefile is generated if I run from the command
> line:
> >
> > cd build
> > cmake -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Debug ..
> >
> > Things don't go so well when I try to open the main CMakeLists.txt with
> QtCreator... I get an error from the first execution of find_package() in a
> sub-directory.
> >
> > Something I noticed is that the CMakeCache.txt file in build/ is missing
> a lot of entries compared to the one generated when running CMake from the
> command line. Once again, no idea why.
> >
> > I assume CMake gets a different environment when running in QtCreator
> compared to the one when executed from the command line, but I have no idea
> how to fix that.
> >
> > Any suggestions?
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> >
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> >
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> >
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