[Bf-committers] Fast Linux/CMake/QtCreator Setup Tutorial

[Campbell Barton]

On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 6:09 AM, Leif Andersen
<leif.a.andersen at gmail.com> wrote:
> /me smacks himself:  Blender can be updated from subversion within QtCreator
> Tools -> Subversion -> Update Project "Blender"
>
> Thanks. :)
>
> ~Leif Andersen
>
> ----------
> That was easy:
> http://www.appbrain.com/app/net.leifandersen.mobile.android.easybutton
>
>
> On Sun, May 9, 2010 at 21:43, Xavier Thomas <xavier.thomas.1980 at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> It is integrated in QT creator as it comes
>>
>> 2010/5/10 Leif Andersen <leif.a.andersen at gmail.com>:
>> > That was very useful, thank you.  I would like to know though, did you
>> get
>> > some sort of plugin to integrate SVN into QTCreator, it do you use some
>> > other GUI client like rapidsvn, or do you just use the command line
>> inputs
>> > for svn?
>> >
>> > Thank you
>> >
>> > ~Leif Andersen
>> >
>> > ----------
>> > That was easy:
>> > http://www.appbrain.com/app/net.leifandersen.mobile.android.easybutton
>> >
>> >
>> > On Sun, May 9, 2010 at 18:50, Xavier Thomas <
>> xavier.thomas.1980 at gmail.com>wrote:
>> >
>> >> I also use this exact same config and was thinking of doing a video
>> >> tutorial on how to set it up because of the high frequency these
>> >> questions comes up in IRC. (But waiting for a sound card that actually
>> >> works to record my sweet voice)
>> >>
>> >> In the meantime maybe adding some additional info here is good idea:
>> >> - You need at least version 1.3 to have code navigation/refactoring tool
>> >> - The search box to quickly find a function or a open a file in the
>> >> lower left corner is really nice to avoid going through all the source
>> >> code directories to find a file.
>> >> -You still can build with scons on the command line if you want to but
>> >> it is slower.
>> >>
>> >> On a other hand KDevelop 4 works similarly (open the CMakelist.txt as
>> >> a project, choose a build dir and your done).
>> >>
>> >> For those who want a competitive analisys:
>> >>
>> >> QTCreator:
>> >> Pros
>> >> - Lightweight and fast
>> >> - CleanUI
>> >> - Using Cmake is easy
>> >> - Subversion tools for most tasks
>> >> - Good integrated debugger
>> >> Cons
>> >> - Code navigation/refactoring tools works only in opened files and not
>> >> the whole scope, (#ifdef also mess things up)
>> >> - Inspecting values in the debugger is time consuming
>> >>
>> >> Kdevelop
>> >> Pros
>> >> - Using Cmake is easy
>> >> - Subversion tools for most tasks
>> >> - Great integrated debugger which permit inspecting values with just a
>> >> mouse over
>> >> - Code navigation and refactoring tools almost perfect
>> >> Cons
>> >> - Slower but still light fast compared to eclipse/netbeans
>> >> - Bloated UI
>> >>
>> >> And for Debian users, both QTCreator and KDevelop are in the
>> repositories.
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> 2010/5/9 Campbell Barton <ideasman42 at gmail.com>:
>> >> > Heres a page I wrote today about my IDE configuration on Linux, which
>> >> > is similar to nexYon's and joe's
>> >> > I was thinking this might help GSOC students who use Linux, but others
>> >> > may be interested too.
>> >> >
>> >> > This setup is nice because you can point QtCreator at an existing
>> >> > CMake build directory to get the IDE up and running quickly.
>> >> > It also doesn't rely on using QtCreator, you can keep building from
>> >> > the command line too.
>> >> >
>> >> > This document also goes into some details about getting faster build
>> >> > times (~2 seconds, ~3 seconds with a change to a single C file)
>> >> >
>> >> > http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/User:Ideasman42/CMakeQTCreatorLinux
>> >> >
>> >> > for visual people, heres a screenshot :)
>> >> > http://wiki.blender.org/uploads/a/a1/Qtc_blender_25.png
>> >> >
>> >> > --
>> >> > - Campbell

Thanks xavier for the info on kdevelop, I used the 3.x version for
some months, found it quite good except managed to crash its debugger
integration fairly frequently.

I didnt get to test the recent kdevelop 4.x release yet so glad to
know its on par with QtCreator.

For refactoring I use my own python script which can go over all files
and do things like search/replace, change order of args. I find this
better because I like to be able to refactor different languages and
being written in python makes it flexible.

Note that I also tried eclipse, netbeans, codeblocks (a little) and code-lite
in general I found these apps OK but not great at dealing with a
project as big as Blender.
In the case of netbeans and eclipse - they are not focused on C/C++,
they can be made to work OK with some configuring but suffer from
java-slowness.

-- 
- Campbell