qt-creator – Page 2 – Tarik Billa

How to copy Qt runtime DLLs to project output

December 6, 2023 by Tarik

OK, here’s an ugly hack: # Copy required DLLs to output directory CONFIG(debug, debug|release) { QtCored4.commands = copy /Y %QTDIR%\\bin\\QtCored4.dll debug QtCored4.target = debug/QtCored4.dll QtGuid4.commands = copy /Y %QTDIR%\\bin\\QtGuid4.dll debug QtGuid4.target = debug/QtGuid4.dll QMAKE_EXTRA_TARGETS += QtCored4 QtGuid4 PRE_TARGETDEPS += debug/QtCored4.dll debug/QtGuid4.dll } else:CONFIG(release, debug|release) { QtCore4.commands = copy /Y %QTDIR%\\bin\\QtCore4.dll release QtCore4.target = release/QtCore4.dll QtGui4.commands … Read more

How can I make QtCreator break on exceptions?

November 22, 2023 by Tarik

Open Debug mode (Ctrl+F4 or just 4th mode on right bar). Open context menu in breakpoints list at right bottom: Select “Add Breakpoint” and set the breakpoint type to “Break when C++ exception is thrown”:

Best Practices for “Cross-Platform” Development with Qt

September 23, 2023 by Tarik

Qt’s tagline is: Write once, compile everywhere. With this in mind, Qt doesn’t officially offer any out of the box solution for cross compiling Qt applications from a specific platform to other different platforms. Though definitely do-able, if much work and time is invested, Qt good common practice would suggest you to build your Qt … Read more

Why does my Qt 4.5 app open a console window under Windows?

September 17, 2023 by Tarik

For those who have this issue using CMake under Windows (see Amoo’s comment), here’s a solution here. In short, you need to add WIN32 to your add_executable() statements: add_executable(GuiApplication WIN32 src/main.cpp) For further details, see the CMake documentation on add_executable and WIN32_EXECUTABLE.

Console input with Qt Creator

August 31, 2023 by Tarik

I found a solution. With Qt Creator 1.3.0 (on Mac OS X), here is what I had to do : Project->Run settings, check “Run in Terminal” (thanks Ropez) Qt Creator->Preferences : Environnement : General : Terminal : I had to put the whole path to XTerm. For my config, I had to put /usr/x11/bin/xterm -e. … Read more

How to add pre processing defs (macros) to qt creator?

August 21, 2023 by Tarik

It depends:-) The following is assuming you are using qmake based projects: First you can add DEFINES += SOME_DEFINE=value into your .pro file. That is picked up inside creator and when building on the command line and should also show up when creating a MSVC or XCode project from the .pro file. Then you can … Read more

Where in Qt Creator do I pass arguments to a compiler?

August 15, 2023 by Tarik

Depending on your build system it’s either in your qmake project file(.pro, standard for new projects) or in one of the CMake files (CMakeLists.txt, used by KDE and several other projects). Using .pro: QMAKE_CXXFLAGS += -O2 Using CMake: set( CMAKE_CXX_FLAGS “-g -Wall”)

Using a static library in Qt Creator

July 23, 2023 by Tarik

LIBS += -L[path to lib] -l[name of lib] Note! that filename of lib: lib[nameOfLib].a and you have to pass only original part -l[nameOfLib]

How to configure CDB in Qt Creator?

June 14, 2023 by Tarik

I was having the same problems too, and finally figured out how to solve this. Styne666 gave me a hint. Do the following: Tools Options… Build & Run Tool Chains Use the “Clone” button to make a copy of each of the auto-detected MSVC items In each of the cloned items, you can specify the … Read more

error: Unknown module(s) in QT: qml quick – Qt Creator

June 1, 2023 by Tarik

According to Hayt’s answer (and the askubuntu post), I had to install the qtdeclarative5-dev package.