Building Qt Creator for Plugin Development

[Joseph K]

Dear community,

I have my first QtCreator instance, and I want to build a second in order to develop plugins. I'm guessing the process is something like:
(a) Clone the repo
(b) Set environment variables or pass parameters to qmake, such that QtCreator is installed to a location I specify (eg. if I was using configure, I'd configure --prefix=/usr/local)
(c) Install

Have I missed or misunderstood any steps?

Many thanks.

[SGaist]

Hi,

You can use one instance of Qt Creator and build the development version with it. No need for installation of your development version of Qt Creator, you just do it like for any other application.

[Joseph K]

@SGaist

Thanks for the quick reply. I don't quite follow. I use my single instance of Qt Creator for developing plugins?

[SGaist]

This allows to debug your plugin more easily.