[solved] Qt creator complains that it cannot parse .pro file, but it can still build

heliosbird

Hello,

I have a project that contains two sub-projects I am organizing with the SUBDIRS template. I can build the projects through Qt Creator and I can run run the .exe, but I cannot run the applications through Qt Creator. When I check the project page in Qt Creator, it will not allow me to make changes to the Run configuration because it cannot parse the .pro. This confuses me, as I can successfully build the project and there are no new warnings in the compile output.

-project
-project.pro
-common
--common.pri
--common source
-subproject1
--subproject1.pro
--subproject1 source
-subproject2
--subproject2.pro
--subproject2 source

Note: both subproject1.pro and subproject2.pro use the app template.

Here are the pro and pri files:

project.pro:
@message(~~~ project.pro ~~~)

TEMPLATE = subdirs
include(common/common.pri)

CONFIG += ordered

SUBDIRS = Simulator
ShutterUI@

common.pri:

@message(~~~ common.pri ~~~)

#Includes common configuration for all subdirectory .pro files. this will have the shared folder
QT += network

HEADERS += ../common/header.h

SOURCES += ../common/source.cpp

WARNINGS += -Wall@

subproject1.pro

@message(~~~ subproject1.pro ~~~)

TEMPLATE = app

QT += opengl
network
svg
xml

INCLUDEPATH += directory1
directory2 --

! include( ../common/common.pri ) {
error( Couldn't find the common.pri file! )
}

HEADERS += subproject1header.h

SOURCES += subproject1header.cpp

LIBS += -lwsock32
-lws2_32 \

FORMS += ui/subproject1form--.ui \

OTHER_FILES +=

RESOURCES +=
resources--.qrc \

RC_FILE = resource--.rc

static { # everything below takes effect with CONFIG += static
CONFIG += static
QTPLUGIN += qsvg qico #qpng # image formats
DEFINES += STATIC
message("~~~ static build ~~~") # this is for information, that the static build is done
mac: TARGET = $$join(TARGET,,,_static) #this adds an _static in the end, so you can seperate static build from non static build
win32: TARGET = $$join(TARGET,,,s) #this adds an s in the end, so you can seperate static build from non static build
}

message(~~~ end subproject1.pro ~)
@
subproject2.pro
@message(~ subproject2.pro ~~~)

TEMPLATE = app

QT += opengl
network
svg
xml

INCLUDEPATH += directory1
directory2-

! include( ../common/common.pri ) {
error( Couldn't find the common.pri file! )
}

HEADERS += subproject2header.h

SOURCES += subproject2--header.cpp

LIBS += -lwsock32
-lws2_32 \

FORMS += ui/subproject1form--.ui \

OTHER_FILES +=

RESOURCES +=
resources--.qrc \

RC_FILE = resource--.rc

static { # everything below takes effect with CONFIG += static
CONFIG += static
QTPLUGIN += qsvg qico #qpng # image formats
DEFINES += STATIC
message("~~~ static build ~~~") # this is for information, that the static build is done
mac: TARGET = $$join(TARGET,,,_static) #this adds an _static in the end, so you can seperate static build from non static build
win32: TARGET = $$join(TARGET,,,s) #this adds an s in the end, so you can seperate static build from non static build
}

message(~~~ end subproject2.pro ~~~)
@

Now, I should say this originally started as two projects that both compiled and ran as expected. They share a couple of common source files, that I wanted to manage together instead of having to update both. It is for this reason that I am trying to restructure this into a SUBDIR project.

I am using Qt 4.8.2 (32 bit, commercial), Qt Creator 2.5.2 on a windows 7 machine (64 bit).

Thank you for your help.

AB

heliosbird

Well, I think I figured out what was causing my problem.

The line below was fine for building with QMake, but apparently the Qt creator project parser is a bit more stringent.

@! include( ../common/common.pri ) {
error( Couldn't find the common.pri file! )
}@

I changed this to
@ include( ../common/common.pri )@

Now is parses the project file just fine.