Qt Creator Not Recognizing New Project Build Directory

Crag_Hack

I'm having a silly problem with Qt Creator. It doesn't let me change the default Working Directory for my project. I moved the project to a new location which caused the problem. I can change the working directory under Projects --> Run however it won't change the default. If I select shadow build it uses the old working directory. When I build I get:

The build directory needs to be at the same level as the source directory.

I renamed some of the extra files sitting around to loghelper.pro.userold file, loghelper.pro.user.3.0-pre1old, loghelper.pro.user.3.2-pre1old, loghelper.pro.user.627e749old and all 3 Makefiles to old as well hoping to force a rebuild of whatever component was using the old working directory but with no success.

Also I did Run qmake and Clean Project as well.

Any ideas? Thanks!

SGaist

Hi,

IIRC, that's just a warning.

Can you share your .pro file ?

Crag_Hack

Thanks. Sure he goes. Also I get

LNK1181: cannot open input file 'release\main.obj'

#-------------------------------------------------
#
# Project created by QtCreator 2013-11-14T14:26:53
#
#-------------------------------------------------

QT       += core gui
QT       += network

greaterThan(QT_MAJOR_VERSION, 4): QT += widgets

TARGET = loghelper
TEMPLATE = app

INCLUDEPATH += "C:\OpenSSL-Win32\include"

LIBS += -LC:\OpenSSL-Win32\lib -llibeay32 -lssleay32

SOURCES += main.cpp\
        loghelper.cpp \
    logentry.cpp \
    clicklabel.cpp \
    slentry.cpp

HEADERS  += loghelper.h \
    logentry.h \
    clicklabel.h \
    slentry.h

CONFIG += static

CONFIG += release

Crag_Hack

And this is somewhat just a nuisance I can set the build directory manually just wondering why Qt Creator doesn't play nice with the shadow build option after resetting the working directory.

Crag_Hack

Solved the problem! The default working directory is the working directory as of the last time you closed the project (maybe save not sure). So I set the working directory to the new one by unchecking shadow build, closed the project, then re-opened it and the default shadow build working directory was updated. Now clicking shadow build works again. Somewhat unintuitive but oh well.