How to build wxWidgetsets project using Qt Creator?

Kobid

For example, in Visual Studio Code this is how I'm preparing tasks.json which is responsible for building my wxWidgetsets project using g++ and it simply works and even debugging works in this IDE, I don't need to link anything, wx-config is the last argument:

{
    "tasks": [
        {
            "type": "cppbuild",
            "label": "C/C++: g++ kompiluj aktywny plik",
            "command": "/usr/bin/g++",
            "args": [
                "-fdiagnostics-color=always",
                "-g",
                "${fileDirname}/**.cpp",
                "-o",
                "${fileDirname}/${fileBasenameNoExtension}",
                "`/home/dibo/programowanie/wxWidgetsInstallGTK/bin/wx-config",
                "--cflags",
                "--libs`"
            ],
            "options": {
                "cwd": "${fileDirname}"
            },
            "problemMatcher": [
                "$gcc"
            ],
            "group": {
                "kind": "build",
                "isDefault": true
            },
            "detail": "Zadanie wygenerowane przez debuger."
        }
    ],
    "version": "2.0.0"
}

JonB

@Kobid
If you want to figure out why the order of arguments matters, we could understand the command line better if we knew what the

`/home/dibo/programowanie/wxWidgetsInstallGTK/bin/wx-config --cflags --libs`

is returning, so we can compare the two actual, full command lines are, and hence how their behaviour differs.

I don't know how, but there is probably a way to get qmake or cmake alter what order arguments are passed. It's a bit tricky as obviously you have a single "token" returning some mixture of arguments.

Btw, do you need the --cflags argument to wx-config when you are producing the arguments for just the linker?

Kobid

Ahh, sorry, you are right, this is what it is returning:

-I/home/dibo/programowanie/wxWidgetsInstallGTK/lib/wx/include/gtk3-unicode-static-3.2 -I/home/dibo/programowanie/wxWidgetsInstallGTK/include/wx-3.2 -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D__WXGTK__ -pthread
-L/home/dibo/programowanie/wxWidgetsInstallGTK/lib -pthread   /home/dibo/programowanie/wxWidgetsInstallGTK/lib/libwx_gtk3u_xrc-3.2.a /home/dibo/programowanie/wxWidgetsInstallGTK/lib/libwx_gtk3u_qa-3.2.a /home/dibo/programowanie/wxWidgetsInstallGTK/lib/libwx_baseu_net-3.2.a /home/dibo/programowanie/wxWidgetsInstallGTK/lib/libwx_gtk3u_html-3.2.a /home/dibo/programowanie/wxWidgetsInstallGTK/lib/libwx_gtk3u_core-3.2.a /home/dibo/programowanie/wxWidgetsInstallGTK/lib/libwx_baseu_xml-3.2.a /home/dibo/programowanie/wxWidgetsInstallGTK/lib/libwx_baseu-3.2.a -lgthread-2.0 -pthread -lX11 -lXxf86vm -lSM -lxkbcommon -lgtk-3 -lgdk-3 -lpangocairo-1.0 -latk-1.0 -lcairo-gobject -lcairo -lgdk_pixbuf-2.0 -lgio-2.0 -lXtst -lpangoft2-1.0 -lpango-1.0 -lgobject-2.0 -lglib-2.0 -lharfbuzz -lfontconfig -lfreetype -lwxscintilla-3.2 -lexpat -lpcre2-32 -lpng -ljpeg -ltiff -ljbig -lz -lm

JonB

@Kobid
You have

set(CMAKE_CXX_FLAGS "${CMAKE_CXX_FLAGS} `/home/dibo/programowanie/wxWidgetsInstallGTK/bin/wx-config --cflags --libs`")

Those are intended to be C++ flags (compiler) and would naturally come early on the command line. I think you want the linker library flags to go into qmake's LIBS or target_link_libraries() for cmake, as @Christian-Ehrlicher said earlier. That would be placed at the end of the linker command line. I know nothing about this, but maybe --cflags only should be used to construct CMAKE_CXX_FLAGS while --libs only should be used to construct LIBS/target_link_libraries()?

Kobid

I thought so that I'll probably need to add all libs in my .pro / cmakelists manually, there is a lot of them, --libs did all of the work in other IDEs. Well, no time to waste, it will be long evening :D

Kobid

But maybe there is some nasty workaround? For example in Visual Studio Code I also did a trick, I could not set this as one argument:

"args": [
                "-fdiagnostics-color=always",
                "-g",
                "${fileDirname}/**.cpp",
                //"${file}",
                "-o",
                "${fileDirname}/${fileBasenameNoExtension}",
                "`/home/dibo/programowanie/wxWidgetsInstallGTK/bin/wx-config --cflags --libs`",
            ],

That is because if VS detect space in JSON argument, it pass to gcc as quoted argument. That is why I splitted it to:

"`/home/dibo/programowanie/wxWidgetsInstallGTK/bin/wx-config",
               "--cflags",
               "--libs`"

JonB

@Kobid said in How to build wxWidgetsets project using Qt Creator?:

I thought so that I'll probably need to add all libs in my .pro / cmakelists manually, there is a lot of them, --libs did all of the work in other IDEs. Well, no time to waste, it will be long evening :D

I don't understand. If you can run a command from cmake/qmake to what goes in CMAKE_CXX_FLAGS why can't you do so for LIBS or target_link_libraries() in the same way? Instead of you saying you have to paste in manually. Oh, you mean just doing that has to be across many makefiles? For all I know there might eb a global way. You could wait to see if someone else replies.

Kobid

Woooow!! I always thought that LIBS expect path to existing file etc. I didn't expect that it will accept shell command. I added this:

LIBS += `/home/dibo/programowanie/wxWidgetsInstallGTK/bin/wx-config --libs`

And everything is working! App is building and running. Amazing, I can use now my favourite IDE. Thank you guys!!
This is my finall .pro file. I must check if I can do same in CMake because I don't know yet which build system I will use:

TEMPLATE = app
CONFIG += c++17
CONFIG -= app_bundle
CONFIG -= qt

QMAKE_CXXFLAGS += `/home/dibo/programowanie/wxWidgetsInstallGTK/bin/wx-config --cflags`

SOURCES += \
        SimpleBackupApp.cpp \
        SimpleBackupMain.cpp \
        ZipProcess.cpp

DISTFILES += \
    SimpleBackupWx.pro.user

HEADERS += \
    SimpleBackupApp.h \
    SimpleBackupMain.h \
    ZipProcess.h

INCLUDEPATH += /home/dibo/programowanie/wxWidgetsInstallGTK/include/wx-3.2
INCLUDEPATH += /home/dibo/programowanie/wxWidgetsInstallGTK/lib/wx/include/gtk3-unicode-static-3.2

LIBS += `/home/dibo/programowanie/wxWidgetsInstallGTK/bin/wx-config --libs`

But don't know why editor is still showing errors and don't recognize some wx classes and overloaded constructors. INCLUDEPATH is responsible for code completion or I must set paths to WX stricte in Qt Creator settings?

JonB

@Kobid
You can right-click on an orange-underlined function and select something like "Go to definition" or "declaration". See what is there and whether it's the path to the included file you expected.

Kobid

Ok. Finally solved everything. Checked compiler output and wx-config shell execution doesn't work in case of QMAKE_CXXFLAGS like it works in LIBS. So I changed this:

QMAKE_CXXFLAGS += `/home/dibo/programowanie/wxWidgetsInstallGTK/bin/wx-config --cflags`

To what this command exactly return:

QMAKE_CXXFLAGS += -I/home/dibo/programowanie/wxWidgetsInstallGTK/lib/wx/include/gtk3-unicode-static-3.2 -I/home/dibo/programowanie/wxWidgetsInstallGTK/include/wx-3.2 -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D__WXGTK__ -pthread

And now everything works perfectly, even code completion. Important -D__WXGTK__ was missed because gcc was called without what wx-config return