cmake tests and libs separate view in qt creator

Sandon

@Christian-Ehrlicher I wish had more time, but yes.. good reply

cristian-adam

CMake already has the SOURCES property, you just need to use cmake generator expressions to use it.

Take this example:

cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 3.16)

project(WidgetsApp VERSION 0.1 LANGUAGES CXX)

add_subdirectory(app)
add_subdirectory(tests)

add_custom_target(MyApp
    SOURCES $<LIST:TRANSFORM,$<LIST:FILTER,$<TARGET_PROPERTY:WidgetsApp,SOURCES>,EXCLUDE,.*_autogen/.*>,PREPEND,app/>
)

Christian Ehrlicher

@cristian-adam this looks more like a hack to me... 🙂

Christian Ehrlicher

I just saw that I mixed SOURCES And FOLDERS properties - I meant FOLDERS, sorry for the confusion.
https://cmake.org/cmake/help/latest/prop_tgt/FOLDER.html

Sandon

@Christian-Ehrlicher thank you very much! This is quite new to me, so it will take time to understand and rewrite it in a way that works for what I need.. but it could be the "hack/trick" I was looking for.

Edit: after reading it carefully, I am still not sure if this applies to my case. Going to read the documentation. Basically I will need a way to read specific CMakeFiles and associate them to a specific target.

cristian-adam

Regarding FOLDER, yes, I'll have to fix https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/QTCREATORBUG-28873 first.

Currently Qt Creator is abusing FOLDER to make a target runnable. See https://doc.qt.io/qtcreator/creator-run-settings.html#cmake-run-targets

Well, actually, I could keep the qtc_runnable special handling, and have original intent. One wouldn't be able to have both.

Sandon

@cristian-adam thank you for your reply.

Do you think is it possible to achieve what I asked with current Qt creator capabilities?

cristian-adam

@Sandon said in cmake tests and libs separate view in qt creator:

@cristian-adam thank you for your reply.

Do you think is it possible to achieve what I asked with current Qt creator capabilities?

Nope. I have a fix for https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/QTCREATORBUG-28873, you can take an artifact from https://github.com/cristianadam/qt-creator/actions/runs/9979288965 and try it out.

After the code review is done, you can have a Qt Creator 15 snapshot from https://download.qt.io/development_releases/qtcreator/ when they are available.

cristian-adam

Alternatively you can fork Qt Creator on github, apply the patch from https://codereview.qt-project.org/c/qt-creator/qt-creator/+/576805 and push a release tag on github.

This will get you a Qt Creator 14 release with the patch in.

cristian-adam

Qt Creator is open source, Qt Creator is written in C++, and you don't have to do much in order to get a build on GitHub.

Sandon

@cristian-adam that's awesome mate, great job. I look forward to try it out. Thanks again!