[Qt-creator] Set build environment variable from Qt Creator variable

[Christian Kandeler]

On 2/24/26 6:51 PM, Andrzej Telszewski wrote:
> On 10/02/2026 10:49, Christian Kandeler via Qt-creator wrote:
>> On 2/10/26 10:19 AM, Andrzej Telszewski wrote:
>>> how can I use QtC's variables expansion to set an environment 
>>> variable (e.g. in build environment)?
>> There is currently no support for macro expansion in most environment 
>> widgets.
>> Feel free to file a feature request at bugreports.qt.io.
>>
>
> Did the first step and registered to the bugreports ;)
>
> Anyways, I'll still want to ask: is there _any_ way to set build 
> environment variable,
> that could somehow contain project's root directory - not hardcoded, 
> but derived?
>
> My use case is for *.shared project files.
> When creating such shared project file, I use the likes of macro 
> expansion,
> so that the shared file does not contain any hardcoded paths, and works
> no matter in which location I checkout my source code.

I don't think so. However: Isn't this something you should rather do in 
your project file? Surely your build system provides you with the 
project directory and allows you to set environment variables?

Christian