using find_package() of cmake in QtCreator

[SGaist]

Hi and welcome to devnet,

You should add which version of Qt Creator and Qt you are using.

[Bazinevis]

Thanks for your reply.
I was using Qt 5.9.0 and QtCreator 4.3.0 which is the latest Qt. Then I test this on other computer by installing QtCreator 4.3.0 (becuase this version of QtCreator is the best) and installing Qt libraries from repository. But nothing changed and I had that problem too.
This annoying problem occurs in older versions of QtCreator too.

This is a picture of QtCreator 3.5.1 that has this problem too:

By the way I am using Kubuntu 16.04 LTS and 64bit machine.

Also this is the minimal example that I used to show the problem. (here)

[SGaist]

When you say you are installing Qt from repository, do you mean from your distribution package management ?

[Bazinevis]

Yes I mean installing from distribution package management.
I also installed the latest Qt .run file from Qt.io website that had this problem.
I make a project by creating the main.cc and CMakeLists.txt file that I uploaded and using QtCreator to open the CMakeLists.txt file.
Did you test that? I had this problem on my older computer too.
For some libraries like liblua5.2, when I use find_pakage(Lua) nothing adds to the projects pane but when I use find_package(Qt5Core) it adds path to .cmake config files.

[Bazinevis]

Hi again
When I install and use Qt4 libraries using cmake command: find_package(Qt4 COMPONENTS QTCORE QTGUI REQUIRED), everything works fine and nothing adds to the projects pane.
I hope this helps to solve the problem in future version of qtcreator.
Thanks.

[mchinand]

Do you have the Qt5 you want to use set up as a 'Kit' in QtCreator? If you type 'which qmake' on the command line, what does it print out? I think setting the correct Kit will take care of it, but you can also try setting QTDIR to the appropriate Qt version's bin directory in your CMakeLists.txt file (e.g., SET(QTDIR "/home/myhomefolder/MyQt5/bin") ).

[SGaist]

Qt Creator 4.3.1 just got released with work that has been done on the cmake side. You should check it.

[Bazinevis]

Hi
I checked out QtCreator 4.3.1 but I think it's cmake support is a mess.
QtCreator had a very robust cmake support in the past but I think those days are gone.

Look what happens when I create a simple non-qt project using QtCreator:

Look at project view. Even for a simple cmake project there are many annoying entries that I don't want.
I just want a simple project view that shows my folders and source files in tree like structure.
When I import my cmake project which is a big project in Qtcreatro 4.3.1 I can't handle it. QtCreator shows me cmake targets and split headers and sources in "<Source Directory>" and "<Headers>" folders.

[jsulm]

@Bazinevis You can switch from "Projects" to "File System" view

[Bazinevis]

I tried to use FileSystem view but it doesn't have tree structure like project view has. Every time I want to expand a folder I have to open that folder. Besides that using FileSystem view and switching between files is annoying.