@CoBo said in QtCreator constantly "forgetting" CMake property settings:
I'm no CMake user yet, and I know nothing about the CMake integration in Creator, but nevertheless want to add my two cent before you got other answers - maybe from the developers on the mailing list.
Well, in simple cases it actually does respect existing CMakeCache files, but it looks like in more complex projects it tends to "give up" - and drops everything!
Ok, so best would be you have an example CMakeCache file that exhibits that behavior, so the developers can reproduce it.
And there is for me no reason why this should be some extra because the entire cmake processing is done in the background by the cmake tool anyway: why reinvent the wheel?
Yeah, the build is done by CMake, but Creator needs information about the project: which files are involved, which build targets, which compiler flags etc.
Tradionally, that area was not covered by CMake, it slowly moves in that direction and Qt developers sent patches to CMake to improve the situation.
So as I said above: if you have clear examples of what is not working: tell them. And after all, Creator is an open source project, so adding some GUI to set up CMake parameter can also be done by external contributors (hint, hint, hint!)
so I can also easily imagine that a QtCreator project setup has the potential to be clearly better than cmake-gui. But that is so far just my dreaming!
Let's hope that dream come true. After all, we will have much more CMake users the next years.
Regards
