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Example of Qt project using CMake

QtCMake

This is an example of running Qt project using CMake file. You can either use IDEs (CLion, Visual Studio 2017) to open this project, or compile directly through command line tool.

CLion

Add the following line

QTDIR:PATH="*YOUR_QT_INSTALL_LOCATION*"

to

"*CLion Build Directory*"/cmake-build-debug/CMakeCache.txt
or
"*CLion Build Directory*"/cmake-build-release/CMakeCache.txt

based on your configuration type. You can add this line at anywhere, CLion will automatically configure it for you.

Visual Studio 2017

Visual Studio 2017 comes with CMake support. You can take advantage of the features of Visual Studio to open and compile CMake projects.

Open the project by File->Open->Folder... or simply Right Click in the folder space. Find menu CMake->Change CMake Settings-> YOUR_CMAKE_FILE in VS2017 to open CMakeSettings.json for editing. Add the following variable

"variables": [ { "name": "QTDIR", "value": "*YOUR_QT_INSTALL_LOCATION*" } ]

to CMakeSettings.json.

An example of CMakeSettings.json will look like this:

{
  "configurations": [ {
      "name": "x64-Release",
      "generator": "Visual Studio 15 2017 Win64",
      "configurationType": "Release",
      "inheritEnvironments": [ "msvc_x64" ],
      "buildRoot": "${workspaceRoot}/${name}",
      "variables": [ {
          "name": "QTDIR",
          "value": "C:/Qt/Qt5.9.0/5.9/msvc2017_64/"
        } ]
    } ]
}

where the Qt location is C:/Qt/Qt5.9.0/5.9/msvc2017_64/.

Command Line

To run CMake directly in command line, add the following CMake option to your command line.

-DQTDIR="*YOUR_QT_INSTALL_LOCATION*"