[CMake] CMake/Ninja support in Qt Creator

[Peter Kümmel]

Yes, starting from scratch helps in most cases. But with cmake
we are used to simply clean the build dir, which doesn't help here.

It is a problem that creator's .user file is stored beside
the CMakeLists.txt: you can't check it in because of absolute paths,
a clean of the repository removes it, a buggy setup
is remember by creator, and it violates the principle
"don't touch the the source". I told them, but they don't care.

Peter



On 19.09.2012 08:08, Wouter van Kleunen wrote:
>
> Peter,
>
> i had 2.8.9-pre3 before, i upgraded to 2.8.9. But only after deleting
> the CMakeLists user file from qtcreator, deleting the build directory
> and restarting qtcreator I was able to get the option to build with Ninja.
>
> Anyway, it seems to work fine now, and the building is much faster.
>
>
> Wouter
>
>
> Op 18-9-2012 22:50, Peter Kümmel schreef:
>> Hi Wouter,
>>
>> you need the latest cmake version, 2.8.9.
>>
>> Under Tools/Options/Build&Run/CMake
>> the ninja binary could be set, or have it PATH.
>>
>> Peter
>>
>> On 18.09.2012 22:29, Wouter van Kleunen wrote:
>>>
>>> So how do you make it to use ninja ? Should I enable ninja somewhere ?
>>> Because when I run cmake from the gui it now still generates nmakefiles.
>>>
>>> Wouter
>>>
>>> Op 17-9-2012 18:08, Peter Kümmel schreef:
>>>> Qt Creator 2.6 is beta now.
>>>>
>>>> On github I've uploaded a patched version with Ninja support for CMake
>>>> based projects:
>>>>
>>>>       https://github.com/syntheticpp/qt-creator/downloads
>>>>
>>>> When CDB is installed
>>>>
>>>> http://doc-snapshot.qt-project.org/qtcreator-2.5/creator-debugger-engines.html#supported-cdb-versions
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> debugging works even with the 32bit/64bit compilers of Visual Studio
>>>> Express 2012.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Currently I'm trying to bring the patches upstream, but for 2.6 it
>>>> seems too late.
>>>>
>>>> Peter
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