I forgot to mention that I know about this, but this can potentially also break portability, since it might preempt the directory reported by pkg-config.
On 31/12/12 12:26, Orgad Shaneh wrote: > Add in your pro file: > INCLUDEPATH += /usr/include/SDL > > > On Mon, Dec 31, 2012 at 12:19 PM, Nikos Chantziaras <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > > I've run into a nasty problem with Qt Creator (I'm using 2.6.1 on Gentoo > Linux) where it can't find header files I include and thus code > completion for anything in those headers isn't working. > > Case in point: > > #include <SDL.h> > > Creator can't find it because the full path to that header is: > > /usr/include/SDL/SDL.h > > However, I don't want to use: > > #include <SDL/SDL.h> > > instead. That's not the correct way to do it, as it breaks portability. > Some systems don't use "SDL/" but can have that header in > "SDL1.2/" or > "SDL12/" or "SDL-1.2/" or whatever. The correct way to do this is to > use pkg-config. In my project file: > > CONFIG += link_pkgconfig > PKGCONFIG += sdl > > Qt Creator is not able to pick that up. So as a workaround, which seems > to work fine with generic projects, I provided a "ProjectName.includes" > file with this in it: > > /usr/include/SDL > > But Creator doesn't seem to care. This works just fine for non-qmake > projects. But with qmake projects, Creator seems to ignore *.includes > files? > > What can I do? > > This is of course not limited to SDL. The same problem arises with > anything that uses pkg-config to provide include paths and you're not > supposed to hardcode the path prefix into your #include directives. > > _______________________________________________ > Qt-creator mailing list > [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > http://lists.qt-project.org/mailman/listinfo/qt-creator > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Qt-creator mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.qt-project.org/mailman/listinfo/qt-creator > _______________________________________________ Qt-creator mailing list [email protected] http://lists.qt-project.org/mailman/listinfo/qt-creator
