How to get UI Header files without building everything? Nor without using a script that manually runs UIC. Apparently, there's a built-in way to do that.

[karl-police]

I made a script that would generate the UI Header files. However, I was told about that there's things like

Core_autogen and etc. that generate the header files, without having to build everything!

What I want are the ui_*.h files from the .ui files WITHOUT building.

I don't want to build everytime I change something in a .ui file.

Now the problem is, how do you do that???????????

Like, I... don't get it. Like, I have to drill somewhere to find what I want to do.

I am using ninja to build, idk. How do you make those .h without having to manually create a script for it. Like... WHAT DO YOU DO. It's like. I don't get it.

You have created a system, that has stuff like qt_add_ui

But the .h files are only available if you build the thing. But I don't want to build the thing just to get intellisense in Visual Studio IDE. So how can this be fixed.

How do I make those _autogen targets appear.

 

For every qt_add_ui it creates a target, but how do you just run all the header stuff at once, without building. I can't just make another separate CMake .txt file I think. It will error because it can't find the target thing to like combine it with, e.g. add_executable

Like inside build.ninja you'll see a new target for every single .h file like...... WHY

 

[Axel Spoerl]

A slightly confusing and complicated way to ask:
"How can I create a .h file from a .ui file manually?"

The answer is:
Use the uic executable as documented here.
It's located in the libexec directory of your Qt installation.