Qt Creator integration enhancement request

[dewhisna]

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Configuration

Operating system: All

PlatformIO Version (platformio --version): 4.0.3

Additional info

The current integration with Qt Creator works quite well with its ability to output .pro files. However, I would like to see it output it as Qt Creator generic project files instead, with files like .config, .creator, .files, .include, etc. This will allow it to be used with kit configurations that don't include Qt itself, as .pro files are more specific to projects using Qt and requires qmake and a full Qt installation. Plus, qmake is a dying application which they are gradually replacing with cmake.

All of the content of the .pro file that PlatformIO creates fits nicely in these generic project files, which Qt Creator will load together as a project. Just put the predefined macros (or defines) in the .config file. Put the list of project source files in the .files file. And list the include paths in the .include file. And create a .creator file with a single [General] line. And if there are build flags, .cflags and .cxxflags files can be used.

I think this would be a relatively easy change to PlatformIO, but would be a nice improvement in its export to Qt Creator and will allow people to use it with just Qt Creator installed without installing all of Qt too.

[ivankravets]

Could you provide PR? See examples https://github.com/platformio/platformio-core/tree/develop/platformio/ide/tpls

The source code of PlatformIO is located in

python -c "import platformio;print(platformio)"

[dewhisna]

PR created...

Since Qt Creator can default to running make for generic targets, this new template also adds a Makefile that will allow Qt Creator to automatically build the project without having to manually modify the project settings to launch platformio.

This qtcreator-generic IDE template diverges from the qtcreator template in that it doesn't require a Qt Kit to be setup that contains qmake. It also outputs compiler flags so that detail from custom scripts that alter the compiler flags can be captured by the code model in Qt Creator. It does, however, lose the HOMEDIR isolation of include paths that the qtcreator template provides -- this is because I see no good way to do it with the generic project mechanism since it's not parsed by qmake.

Run with: platformio init --ide qtcreator-generic

[ecorm]

The QtCreator generator should add the following lines to the platformio.pro file:

CONFIG += console
CONFIG -= app_bundle
CONFIG -= qt

to avoid the need for the user to install the Qt library.

[belm0]

The QtCreator generator should add the following lines to the platformio.pro file:

CONFIG += console
CONFIG -= app_bundle
CONFIG -= qt

to avoid the need for the user to install the Qt library.

I tried this, but Qt Creator still says "no suitable kits found".

[belm0]

revised PR: #4262