[Qtwebengine] Working in QtWebEngine and IDE support

[Allan Jensen]

On Donnerstag, 12. Mai 2022 08:25:28 CEST Benjamin TERRIER wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I've recently spent time exploring and playing with Qt WebEngine internals.
> 
> However my setup is a bit painful to work with. So I'm looking for advice
> and tips on how to have a correct/efficient work environment to work inside
> QtWE.
> 
> In particular I'm interested in IDE support. VS Code has a pretty poor code
> model and when following symbols I end up in the wrong namespace. With Qt
> creator I only see files that are in the api folders.
> 
> How to you build Qt with QtWebEngine? Do you build Qt and QtWebEngine
> together? Or do you build Qt without QtWE, and then build QtWE on it's own?
> 
> Do you have any tips to speed up consecutive builds of QtWE? When I change
> a single cop file, the next build seems to be a bit long for a single file
> change.
> 
I typically import a build in Qt Creator, that worked well in 5.15. With 6.x 
it still misses the chromium files, which requires some extra hacks to get 
working but we haven't automated yet.

Best regards
Allan