IMPORT_PATH has zero practical effect on qmlls

Jessia Clinkscale

The title is a rant. I cannot get QML modules in a subdirectory to work at all.

The MyModule_lib is a CMake target which contains a perfectly working QML module (that prints "hello world" on construction), and in the main target, qmlls can find it if it's a direct subdirectory of the main project that matches its URI (./MyModule). However, as soon as I move it into a nested directory (./modules/MyModule), then nothing works at all.

add_subdirectory(modules/MyModule)

qt_policy(SET QTP0005 NEW)

qt_add_qml_module(
  apphello_world
  URI               hello_world
  IMPORT_PATH       ${CMAKE_BINARY_DIR}/modules
  VERSION           1.0
  DEPENDENCIES      QtQuick
  IMPORTS           TARGET MyModule_lib
  QML_FILES         Main.qml)

qmlls will happily complain

Failed to import MyModule. Are your import paths set up properly? [import]
Warnings occurred while importing module "MyModule": [import]

If someone can provide a minimal example where there's a QML module (qt_add_library(XXX)) nested within a directory to be properly consumed by the main executable target, with qmlls actually parsing its contents, I would greatly appreciate it.

Jessia Clinkscale

Turns out it wasn't me doing something wrong. It was a Qt bug: https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/QTCREATORBUG-31949