How to change globally the debug/release name and absolute-relative specification for building folders

tonnot

Now I have :

1.- A long name for autodetected kit: "Qt 5.0.0 Desktop for MSVC 2010" (or something like this)
2.- The debug/relese folders are placed at the same level of every project.....

So, my work folder are going to have a lot of long build folders....

I'd want:
1.- A way to define a short name...
2.- A way to specify relative to every project

I want a global way to do this ? Is it possible ?
I have the last qtcreator .
Thanks.

sierdzio

You can change the name of the kit in Tools->Options->Build & Run->Kits.

You can also change the path by hand, or turn off shadow building and specify your own in .pro file (variables DESTDIR, MOC_DIR, OBJECT_DIR, RCC_DIR).

I don't know any global way to control this, but it's likely there is one somewhere.

tonnot

You can't change the name of autodetected kit.
Ok, you can create a new default, but in this case when you create a new project you have to uncheck the first toolkit.....
Ok, this is not a hard job but....
And I dont know to do this (pro variables) for every project.
Sometimes I think QT developers are engaged to make the easy difficult.....
Thanks sierdzio

sierdzio

[quote author="tonnot" date="1358245282"]Sometimes I think QT developers are engaged to make the easy difficult.....[/quote]

From that I can assume you have not seen Xcode yet ;) Apple is at master level in that regard.

Coming back to the issue, I don't care that much, I personalise every project in qmake anyway, so those changes mostly don't affect me. Believe me, though, you can propose changes on qt-creator mailing list and your voice will be heard. Recently, for example, there was a talk concerning recent shadow building changes and user-proposed change is going to be adopted for next QtC version.

I think the biggest showstopper here was the inflexibility of qmake when shadow building. That is why it behaves the way it does.

tobias.hunger

You can always change the build directory in the projects settings (Projects>Kit>Build)... but I am not aware of a way to change the default directory name (which is based on the kit name).