Hi Tobias and thank you for your reply, my project is based on qmake and I know that a quick workaround is to set the value of QMAKE_CXX, but according to the Qt Creator documentation: "In the Compiler field, select the C or C++ compiler used to build the project." so I expect the kit to set the active compiler when building a project.
Everything is fine with Clang, but also with GCC when using CMake or Qbs as build system. Anyway, I created https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/QTCREATORBUG-21751 to provide more details. On Mon, 17 Dec 2018 at 20:00, Tobias Hunger <tobias.hun...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Davide, > > On Mon, Dec 17, 2018 at 4:40 PM Davide Coppola <vivala...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> I can't manage to get Qt Creator to use an older compiler on Linux using >> kits. >> > > The toolchain in the kit is mostly for use in C++ code model. The actual > build system is told what was set up -- if that is possible. > > Which build system are you using? > > Qmake is the odd one out here: It tends to hard-code compiler executable > names into its mkspec files and there is no reliable way to override it. So > this is kind of expected for qmake... > > To have qmake pick up a non-default named compiler, you can try two things: > * Change the mkspec > * Create a folder somewhere, put a symlink called gcc/g++ into it and have > those links point to whatever gcc you want. Then set PATH to include your > folder before anything else that includes a gcc/g++ binary. > > I hope this helps, > Tobias > -- *Davide Coppola* *website:* http://www.davidecoppola.com *blog:* http://blog.davidecoppola.com <http://plus.google.com/+DavideCoppola> <http://www.linkedin.com/in/davidecoppola> <http://www.twitter.com/vivaladav>
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