Thanks for the advice - I will try both options.
On 29 Sep 2011, at 16:16, <[email protected]> <[email protected]> wrote: > You can't tell Qt Creator directly to use a different .user file. It is > always called yourproject.pro.user. As already said, you can't share the > .user file. So I see two options for you: > > 1) Use dropbox to mount your mercurial repository. Don't work on it directly, > but check the repository from dropbox out locally on Mac and Windows > separately. After all, you are using a distributed source control, so use it > :) . That way you share the sources, but actually work on different copies, > and as long as you don't check the .user into source control you are fine. > > 2) hack around it by creating separate subdirs projects for win and mac, > myproject_mac.pro and myproject_win.pro, which simply include your actual > project. That way you'll have separate myproject_mac.pro.user and > myproject_win.pro.user and can set up different shadow build directories. > Note that this is a misleading hack, because the .user files *can not be > shared between different computers*, even not between computers with the same > OS. So opening myproject_mac.pro.user on a different Mac than the file was > created on will most likely fail. > > -- > Eike Ziller > Principal Software Engineer > > Nokia, Qt Development Frameworks > > Nokia gate5 GmbH > Firmensitz: Invalidenstr. 117, 10115 Berlin, Germany > Registergericht: Amtsgericht Charlottenburg, Berlin: HRB 106443 B > Umsatzsteueridentifikationsnummer: DE 812 845 193 > Geschäftsführer: Dr. Michael Halbherr, Karim Tähtivuori > From: [email protected] > [[email protected]] on behalf of ext > Danny Price [[email protected]] > Sent: Thursday, September 29, 2011 16:50 > To: [email protected] > Subject: [Qt-creator] Sharing project between platforms > > I'm developing a Subdir project consisting of two static libraries and an > executable for Windows and Mac. > > I'm using mercurial for source control on my dropbox account so I can work > easily on the project on both platforms. > > This works fine except for one issue; pro.user files. When I switch systems I > have to delete the pro.user file and any products (I'm using shadow building) > and re-import the subdir in order to regen the makefiles for that platform. > > Is there anyway to get around this problem? Can I setup creator to correctly > load the right configuration when it loads the subdir? > > _______________________________________________ > Qt-creator mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.qt.nokia.com/mailman/listinfo/qt-creator
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