[Qt-interest] [Qt-creator] Export Visual Studio 2008projects to Qt

[Pedro Silva Vicente]

Alex

I started learning Qt recently and I did not notice that XML API, but yes 
that could have been a better approach. I'll give it a try, thanks for the 
information.
Pedro

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bravo.Alex" <Alex.Bravo at igt.com>
To: <qt-creator at trolltech.com>; <qt-interest at trolltech.com>
Sent: Wednesday, November 11, 2009 7:47 PM
Subject: Re: [Qt-creator] [Qt-interest] Export Visual Studio 2008projects to 
Qt


> Pedro,
> I'm just curious, since .vcproj has XML syntax, why not use really nice 
> XML APIs
> that Qt has to extract info from that file?
> The resulting code usually is much more stable than direct string 
> manipulation.
>
> Example: consider what would happen if there's a define named 
> "RelativePath"
>
> I do like your idea though.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: qt-creator-bounces at trolltech.com 
> [mailto:qt-creator-bounces at trolltech.com] On Behalf Of Pedro Silva Vicente
> Sent: Wednesday, November 11, 2009 3:50 PM
> To: Pedro Silva Vicente; qt-interest at trolltech.com; 
> qt-creator at trolltech.com
> Subject: Re: [Qt-creator] [Qt-interest] Export Visual Studio 2008 projects 
> to Qt
>
> I initially created a .pro project from scratch and added each project 
> file
> name on the .vcproj file  by hand  (vcproj  has an XML like syntax), but
> since the solution has thousands of files, I gave up quickly.
>
> I ended up changing a Qt application that I am developing to just read the
> .vcproj  file  and export the file names to a text file that I used for 
> the
> "SOURCES" and "HEADERS" part of the .pri Qt file.
>
> The relevant code is here, feel free to use, with some tweaking this code
> can be changed to generate the .pro or .pri files directly.
> The code reads the .vcproj  file and extracts each file name, located in 
> the
> .vcproj file with the keyword "RelativePath" and saves each name to a new
> file "out.txt".
>
> "file_name " in the parameter list is the name of the .vcproj file ,
> obtained from
>
> fileName = QFileDialog::getOpenFileName(this,
>        tr("Open File"), ".",
>        tr("HDF5 files (*.h5);;All files (*.*)"));
>
>
> void MainWindow::convert( const char* file_name )
> {
>
>    FILE       *fr;
>    FILE       *fw;
>    char       s[512];
>    int        c;
>    int        index;
>    int        len;
>    QString    name;
>    QByteArray ba;
>
>
>    fr = fopen(file_name, "r");
>    fw = fopen("out.txt", "w");
>    if ( fr == NULL )
>    {
>        return;
>    }
>
>
>    c = getc(fr);
>    while (c != EOF)
>    {
>
>        fscanf( fr, "%s", s );
>
>        QString str( s );
>        QString path ( "./src/" );
>
>        if ( str.contains( "RelativePath" ) )
>        {
>
>            index = str.lastIndexOf ( QChar('\\' ) );
>            len   = str.length();
>            name  = str.right( len - index - 1 );
>            name.chop( 1 );
>            path.append( name );
>            path.append( " \\" );
>
>            ba = path.toLatin1();
>            fwrite( ba.data(), sizeof( char ), path.length(), fw );
>            fwrite( "\n", sizeof( char ), 1, fw );
>        }
>
>
>        c = getc(fr);
>    }
>    fclose(fr);
>    fclose(fw);
>
>    return;
>
>
>
> }
>
>
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "David Ching" <dc at remove-this.dcsoft.com>
> To: <qt-interest at trolltech.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, November 11, 2009 10:02 AM
> Subject: Re: [Qt-interest] Export Visual Studio 2008 projects to Qt
>
>
>> "Girish Ramakrishnan" <girish at forwardbias.in> wrote in message
>> news:hdebhu$alk$1 at eple.troll.no...
>>> Have you tried the Visual Studio Integration? Add-In is for old versions
>>> of visual studio.
>>>
>>
>> VS Integration has always been for commercial only, and that has been
>> formally deprecated by Nokia.  They aren't developing it anymore (in 
>> fact,
>> they had stopped in the 4.3 or 4.4 timeframe) and encourage everyone to
>> now
>> use the Add-In (which is available for GPL and LPGL) as well.
>>
>> Regarding the original poster's question, I don't believe the Add-in will
>> generate a .pro file for non-Qt projects, but it shouldn't be very hard 
>> to
>> construct one.  If nothing else, just create a temporary new Qt project
>> and
>> add all the files from the non-Qt project, then export the temporary Qt
>> project.  Alternatively, open a command prompt and use qmake -project to
>> generate a .pro file from the files in the current folder.
>>
>> But then settings like compiler/linker are not necessarily set right.  So
>> maybe just examine the .sln and .vcproj of the Qt project and add the
>> relevant lines into the non-Qt project to fool the Add-in into thinking 
>> it
>> is a Qt project.
>>
>>
>> -- David
>>
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