Loading a macOS project on a Windows virtual machine
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The .pro.user file can not be shared between different systems - it does not belong to the source tree even it is created in there by QtCreator
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The .pro.user file can not be shared between different systems - it does not belong to the source tree even it is created in there by QtCreator
Thank you for these clarifications.
Unfortunately it doesn't tell me how to add the right kit and open my macOS project on Windows... -
Thank you for these clarifications.
Unfortunately it doesn't tell me how to add the right kit and open my macOS project on Windows...@MortyMars said in Loading a macOS project on a Windows virtual machine:
my macOS project on Windows...
You can not compile MacOS under Windows.
Install Qt and QtCreator with the Qt online installer then QtCreator should automatically detect the Qt installation. When you want to use MSVC you also have to install it separately. Nothing more needed.
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Thank you for these clarifications.
Unfortunately it doesn't tell me how to add the right kit and open my macOS project on Windows...If you have a working Qt installation on Mac and Windows, you can copy the project over to Windows and delete everything from the project folder except the
.h,.cppand oneyourProject.profile...
Everything else, files likesomething.pro.userorsomething.pro5372527362can be deleted. You can also delete the build folder if it's included in your project dir.
When you project is "clean", you just open QtCreator, load the project with "Open Project..." and then configure it using your local kit which is installed. -
@MortyMars said in Loading a macOS project on a Windows virtual machine:
my macOS project on Windows...
You can not compile MacOS under Windows.
Install Qt and QtCreator with the Qt online installer then QtCreator should automatically detect the Qt installation. When you want to use MSVC you also have to install it separately. Nothing more needed.
@Christian-Ehrlicher said in Loading a macOS project on a Windows virtual machine:
You can not compile MacOS under Windows.
I understand that this is unfortunately not possible :-(
I misspoke, sorry.
I meant that I can't open the project created on macOS, in a Qt installation on Windows. -
If you have a working Qt installation on Mac and Windows, you can copy the project over to Windows and delete everything from the project folder except the
.h,.cppand oneyourProject.profile...
Everything else, files likesomething.pro.userorsomething.pro5372527362can be deleted. You can also delete the build folder if it's included in your project dir.
When you project is "clean", you just open QtCreator, load the project with "Open Project..." and then configure it using your local kit which is installed.@Pl45m4, @Aronox, @Christian-Ehrlicher
After running the maintenance tool to consolidate my Qt installation, and deleting the 'myproject.pro.user' file, the project finally opens under Windows. That's great!
Thanks a lot @Pl45m4 for the help.I'm just discovering my application on Windows and I can see that I'm going to have to do some work to make the interface look similar to what I have on the macOS side (in particular the alignment of the text in my QComboboxes, and the size of the QTextedit fonts).
But that's another subject that will no doubt open up new posts ;-)Thanks again to everyone.
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Thank you for these clarifications.
Unfortunately it doesn't tell me how to add the right kit and open my macOS project on Windows...@MortyMars here's how I do it, after I click to sleect a kit, i sleect the kit with the same Qt version (you have to have the same version installed to do this). And it just works.
See i have two debug files? That is one was created on MacOS and one on Windows. And "post_login" is the main project folder with the .h, .prp, .cpp and any other source files i have in there.
and google drive keeps the files synced between the two systems, no copying needed.
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@MortyMars here's how I do it, after I click to sleect a kit, i sleect the kit with the same Qt version (you have to have the same version installed to do this). And it just works.
See i have two debug files? That is one was created on MacOS and one on Windows. And "post_login" is the main project folder with the .h, .prp, .cpp and any other source files i have in there.
and google drive keeps the files synced between the two systems, no copying needed.
@Aronox said in Loading a macOS project on a Windows virtual machine:
(you have to have the same version installed to do this)
No you don't ;-)
Unless there are major differences in your code and you use features that one version has and the other don't, the same code can be configured, for example, using a Qt 6.6 Kit on Windows and a Qt 6.7 or Qt 6.5 Kit on Mac.
When configuring a project that originates from Qt 6.7 with a very ancient kit that uses Qt 4.8, you might face some difficulties ;-)
