On 23/11/16 06:51, Jason A. Donenfeld wrote:
Hello Eike & Qt Creator mailing list,
I'm insane and decided to try using an IDE for Linux kernel
development. Much to my delight, it actually works well. (Everybody on
the mailing list to which this message is cross-posted just vomited a
little bit in their mouth and swallowed
Actually not.
I did exactly that and I was very happy.
Having configured everything allowed for ease of testing and deployment.
As you can see, it's a real hack.
I also do development on the main Linux kernel tree, and similarly for
that, I have a .pro file that works well:
CONFIG -= qt
INCLUDEPATH = $$system(find -L include/ -type d)
SOURCES = $$system(find -L . -type f -iname \'*.c\')
HEADERS = $$system(find -L . -type f -iname \'*.h\')
INCLUDEPATH = include/ arch/x86/include
I don't remember exactly, but I used some other feature of QtC (Import
Project was it?).
It allowed to easily setup QtC for kernel development.
It worked pretty well, most of the time.
Just a quick search:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5417732/howto-prepare-qtcreator-for-linux-driver-kernel-development
(A) Qt Creator doesn't seem to parse the C correctly. Things like
designated initializers and a few other C features here and there just
don't get parsed correctly, and the IDE stops being useful. I suspect
this is because things are actually being parsed in C++ mode. Bummer.
Developers: any interest in improving C support in Qt Creator?
I too remember seeing false errors when code model parsed struct members
initializers.
But this code seems to work just fine now:
typedef struct abc_t {
int i;
int j;
} abc_t;
abc_t b = {
.i = 13,
.j = 42,
};
i.e. no warnings about syntax.
I'm using QtC 4.2.0-beta1.
And yes, although I'm not going to be involved in enhancing QtC, I would
love to see C receiving decent support.
QtC is my main (well, the only) IDE, and I write both C and C++ code.
So, anyway, if you think it would be cool to be able to say, "Qt
Creator is used for Linux Kernel Development!", then maybe we can work
together to actually get things working properly. It's already 85%
there, and the remaining chunk seems well within reach.
Yes, it would :-)
--
Best regards,
Andrzej Telszewski
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