QtCreator: Support for custom entries in CMAKE_CONFIGURATION_TYPES

[thomas_braun]

Re: Qt Creator does not read build configurations

I'm using latest QtCreator (12.0.2) and cmake with presets. I'm on Windows with MSVC 2022 but that should not matter.

I would like to define custom entries in CMAKE_CONFIGURATION_TYPES like ABCD in

{
  "version": 2,
  "configurePresets": [
    {
      "name": "msvc",
      "generator": "Visual Studio 17 2022",
      "architecture": "x64",
      "binaryDir": "${sourceDir}/build/msvc",
      "cacheVariables": {
        "CMAKE_CONFIGURATION_TYPES": "Debug;Release;ABCD"
      }
    }
  ]
}

With a MWE CMakeLists.txt a la

cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 3.28)
project(mytest CXX)

add_executable(mytest main.cpp)

and then loading that into QTCreator I get the msvc kit but only the Release and Debug variants are correctly added. The ABCD variant does not work.

Is that supported? And if not, is there a workaround?

I would like to avoiding having too many kits and instead want to leverage the build variants.

[cristian-adam]

Please open a bug report.

Note that the number of build types will increase the generating time for all configurations. See https://gitlab.kitware.com/cmake/cmake/-/issues/25440 for more details.

Qt Creator 13 comes with a "Presets Kits" only configuration page.