CMake Cross Compiler and Qt Creator

[allenb]

We are starting to use Qt Creator for many of our projects since CMake compatibility has improved dramatically. I have used Qt Creator for generic projects which would create the following file types

• .config
• .creator
• .files
• .includes

The *.config file allowed the defining of preprocessor defines. Is there a similar way to do this with cmake projects?

The reason I ask is one of the cmake projects is configured for cross compiling and many of the default compiler defines are not properly setup e.g. _M_AMD64 is defined instead of __arm__.

Qt Creator automatically detected the build configuration since we already ran cmake to configure building of the project prior to using Qt Creator.

[mchinand]

Are some of these architecture-specific variables automatically set by having and choosing an appropriate cross-compiler QtCreator Kit?