Notes:

1. Make sure choose a long enough directory for Qt on Unix, otherwise chrpath will fail. Good example /home/build/qt-4.x.x-build-_________PADDING________.

Building Qt Creator

1. It is recommended to build in a shadow build directory
2. qmake $SOURCES/qtcreator.pro CONFIG+=release” “DEFINES+=IDE_REVISION=$GIT_COMMIT” “QTC_PREFIX=/qt-creator-x.y.z” where $GIT_COMMIT should be the sha1 of the commit that you build, and where the QTC_PREFIX is the directory prefix used for the 7zips that are created by the bindist target (see below).
3. set the following environment variables:
   1. INSTALL_ROOT: changes the location for the install dir when doing make install, e.g. $BUILDDIR/install/qtcreator (not used on Mac)
   2. INSTALL_EDITION: can be set to e.g. -opensource, used for 7z and dmg file names, $${PLATFORM}$(INSTALL_EDITION)-$${QTCREATOR_VERSION}$(INSTALL_POSTFIX)
   3. INSTALL_POSTFIX: used for 7z and dmg file names, $${PLATFORM}$(INSTALL_EDITION)-$${QTCREATOR_VERSION}$(INSTALL_POSTFIX)
4. make
5. make docs
6. make install (don’t use on Mac)
7. make install_docs (don’t use on Mac)
8. make deployqt

After these calls the INSTALL_ROOT (Windows/Linux) or $BUILDDIR/bin/Qt Creator.app (Mac) contains a distributable binary build.

To add “external” executables (jom, qtcreatorcdbext64) that we deploy for Windows builds to your install, call

1. make deployartifacts

To create a 7zip with the binary build, call

1. make bindist
   That packages the files with a directory starting with the QTC_PREFIX you set in the qmake call.

To create a 7zip that can be used for installers, that directly contains the files without additional directory prefix (i.e. directly bin/, lib/, and so on), call

1. make bindist_installer

To create actual Qt Creator-only installers, you need to have the installer framework binaries installed, then

1. set the following additional environment variable:
   1. IFW_PATH: location where make installer looks for the installer framework binaries (i.e. its bin/ and lib/ directories)
2. make bindist_installer installer

To create a disk image (dmg) with the Qt Creator.app on Mac, call

1. make dmg

Things affecting the build/install

Environment Variables

Qmake Variables

C Defines

Install Settings

Qt Creator reads the QtCreator.ini, qtversion.xml and toolchains.xml from its installation directory as “install settings”. (The directory is share/qtcreator/IDE_SETTINGSVARIANT/ on Windows and Linux, Qt Creator.app/Contents/Resources/IDE_SETTINGSVARIANT/ on Mac.)

The qt versions from the qtversion.xml and tool chains from toolchains.xml are added as “autodetected” to Qt Creator. The settings file (.ini) is used for QSettings::SystemScope. An installer can give any Qt Creator setting a default value by writing into this .ini file.

The following special settings (or specially notable settings) are also read by Qt Creator:

Todo

• 64 bit binary libs for Creator on Windows
• Qt.conf
• Packaging into Installer Component
• How to write to separate ini file.
• Special qmake variables (updater, sdk)

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