Take a look at how Qt Creator does this: http://gitorious.org/qt-creator

We use .pro and .pri files to group files into libraries and plugins (with their files in separate directories).

Thanks for the tip! Does Qt Creator recognizes this tree structure or does it list everything in the folders Headers, Sources and Forms ? Are the plugins in separate projects?

This is how I organize my bigger projects (using .pri files):

I use pri files like this:

Thanks, that’s exactly what I was thinking of!

Just to add to that you also have the possibility to add multiple projects to a bigger projects using the qmake subdirs template. This basically just tells qmake to build all the projects you specify (and in the order you specify):

I’m not sure how actually do this in Qt Creator. Do you create a new Qt Creator plugin project and modify the .pri so that they get included in your project?

I usually just do New->Text File and change the extension to .pri!

Ok, now I understand. You write it manually initially, then Qt Creator takes cares of it.

Thanks!

Yeah, sorry I should have mentioned that. Maybe if have time, I’ll code a wizard for that and do a merge request.

Yes, that would be incredibly helpful. However, I’m sure a little noob documentation in Qt Creator itself could be good. It may be my fault, but I didn’t find anything in Qt Creator’s docs about that.

Anyway, thank you for your answers!

Sorry to play threadcromancer, but I want to organize my files like this. I can see how to create a new text file and rename it to .pri, but it just gets sorted under Other Files. Never worked with plugins before. Can someone please write a step-by-step on how to organize files like in the image posted above?

EDIT: Hm…ok I’m guessing it’s add library? Didn’t think of that before. BTW, what does the following mean for the .pri file? Specifically $$PWD?

When you create add a text file and rename to .pri in Qt Creator, it will take some time before Qt Creator parses your new files and recognizes the new folder structure. When it does, your project will look like the picture above.

And $$PWD dereferences the environment variable PWD, or print working directory, which is the directory you set for your project in Qt Creator, if I remember well.

I used this link to get information : http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1417776/how-to-use-qmakes-subdirs-template

So I got this stuff working. I uploaded the project to a git repository and cloned it to another computer. However, the project fails to recognize pretty much every header file, one at a time. For example it says it doesn’t recognize one header file, but if I comment that out, then it doesn’t recognize a different header file, and so on. Any ideas on why Qt won’t recognize on one computer while it recognizes and compiles fine on the other? All the pri files and pro files are unchanged from the working computer.

The only thing I could see that would cause that would be using absolute paths. Can you show us your .pro file?