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  2. QTCREATORBUG-31416

Setting "Build before deploying" to "Build Only the Application to Be Run" has no effect for CMake projects

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      Something I've noticed working with qtdeclarative in Creator is that when I do something like an interactive rebase on a series of patches, hit Build > Build for Run Configuration "<the active auto test>", it will build with, say, 500 steps. So it's compiling a bunch of source files. Then I think that it must be finished so I hit Run. It then proceeds to perform 1500 more build steps involving source files.

      I always forget to capture the output before this happens, but here's a less egregious example. After Alt+B, R:

      14:43:09: Running steps for project QtDeclarative...
14:43:09: Starting: "/usr/bin/cmake" --build /home/mitch/dev/qt-dev-debug/qtdeclarative --target tst_qquickrectangleshape
[1/148 18.4/sec] Running syncqt.cpp for module: QtQuick
[2/138 30.2/sec] Running syncqt.cpp for module: QtQuickTestUtils
[3/137 45.0/sec] Running syncqt.cpp for module: QtQuickShapes
[4/137 54.1/sec] Generating version linker script for target QuickShapesPrivate
[5/137 0.5/sec] Automatic MOC for target Quick
[6/137 0.6/sec] Running AUTOMOC file extraction for target Quick
[7/137 0.7/sec] Running moc --collect-json for target Quick
[8/136 0.4/sec] Building CXX object src/quick/CMakeFiles/Quick.dir/items/qquickitemanimation.cpp.o
[9/136 0.5/sec] Building CXX object src/quick/CMakeFiles/Quick.dir/handlers/qquickhoverhandler.cpp.o
[...]
[93/136 1.8/sec] Building CXX object src/quick/CMakeFiles/Quick.dir/quick_qmltyperegistrations.cpp.o
[94/136 1.5/sec] Linking CXX shared library /home/mitch/dev/qt-dev-debug/qtbase/lib/libQt6Quick.so.6.9.0
[95/136 1.5/sec] Creating library symlink /home/mitch/dev/qt-dev-debug/qtbase/lib/libQt6Quick.so.6 /home/mitch/dev/qt-dev-debug/qtbase/lib/libQt6Quick.so
[96/136 1.4/sec] Automatic MOC for target QuickShapesPrivate
[97/136 1.4/sec] Running AUTOMOC file extraction for target QuickShapesPrivate
[98/136 1.4/sec] Running moc --collect-json for target QuickShapesPrivate
[99/136 1.4/sec] Automatic QML type registration for target QuickShapesPrivate
[100/136 1.4/sec] Automatic MOC for target QuickTest
[101/135 1.4/sec] Running AUTOMOC file extraction for target QuickTest
[102/135 1.5/sec] Running moc --collect-json for target QuickTest
[103/125 1.4/sec] Building CXX object src/quickshapes/CMakeFiles/QuickShapesPrivate.dir/quickshapesprivate_qmltyperegistrations.cpp.o
[104/125 1.4/sec] Building CXX object src/quickshapes/CMakeFiles/QuickShapesPrivate.dir/QuickShapesPrivate_autogen/mocs_compilation.cpp.o
[105/125 1.4/sec] Building CXX object src/quickshapes/CMakeFiles/QuickShapesPrivate.dir/qquickshapesoftwarerenderer.cpp.o
[106/125 1.4/sec] Building CXX object src/quickshapes/CMakeFiles/QuickShapesPrivate.dir/qquickrectangleshape.cpp.o
[107/125 1.4/sec] Building CXX object src/quickshapes/CMakeFiles/QuickShapesPrivate.dir/qquickshapegenericrenderer.cpp.o
[108/125 1.5/sec] Building CXX object src/quickshapes/CMakeFiles/QuickShapesPrivate.dir/qquickshapecurverenderer.cpp.o
[109/125 1.5/sec] Building CXX object src/quickshapes/CMakeFiles/QuickShapesPrivate.dir/qquickshape.cpp.o
[110/125 1.5/sec] Building CXX object src/qmltest/CMakeFiles/QuickTest.dir/quicktest.cpp.o
[111/125 1.5/sec] Linking CXX shared library /home/mitch/dev/qt-dev-debug/qtbase/lib/libQt6QuickShapes.so.6.9.0
[112/125 1.5/sec] Creating library symlink /home/mitch/dev/qt-dev-debug/qtbase/lib/libQt6QuickShapes.so.6 /home/mitch/dev/qt-dev-debug/qtbase/lib/libQt6QuickShapes.so
[113/125 1.5/sec] Linking CXX shared library /home/mitch/dev/qt-dev-debug/qtbase/lib/libQt6QuickTest.so.6.9.0
[114/125 1.5/sec] Creating library symlink /home/mitch/dev/qt-dev-debug/qtbase/lib/libQt6QuickTest.so.6 /home/mitch/dev/qt-dev-debug/qtbase/lib/libQt6QuickTest.so
[115/125 1.4/sec] Automatic MOC for target QuickTestUtilsPrivate
[116/124 1.4/sec] Running AUTOMOC file extraction for target QuickTestUtilsPrivate
[117/124 1.4/sec] Running moc --collect-json for target QuickTestUtilsPrivate
[118/124 1.4/sec] Building CXX object src/quicktestutils/CMakeFiles/QuickTestUtilsPrivate.dir/quick/visualtestutils.cpp.o
[119/124 1.4/sec] Building CXX object src/quicktestutils/CMakeFiles/QuickTestUtilsPrivate.dir/quick/viewtestutils.cpp.o
[120/124 1.4/sec] Linking CXX static library /home/mitch/dev/qt-dev-debug/qtbase/lib/libQt6QuickTestUtils.a
[121/124 1.3/sec] Automatic MOC for target tst_qquickrectangleshape
[122/123 1.2/sec] Building CXX object tests/auto/quick/qquickrectangleshape/CMakeFiles/tst_qquickrectangleshape.dir/tst_qquickrectangleshape.cpp.o
[123/123 1.2/sec] Linking CXX executable tests/auto/quick/qquickrectangleshape/tst_qquickrectangleshape
14:44:50: The process "/usr/bin/cmake" exited normally.
14:44:50: Elapsed time: 01:41.

      After Ctrl+R (after-ctrl-r.txt) is attached - apparently it's too big to paste.

      after-ctrl-r.txt

      If I do Ctrl+B first (ctrl-b-first.txt) followed by Ctrl+R (followed-by-ctrl-r.txt), it's roughly about the same amount of steps (334 vs 332).

      Why does it happen though? It would be nice if I could just get everything built at once rather than have to do it in two steps, because I end up doing other work while waiting for it to build (usually it takes much longer than the reproduced examples I used here) and end up wasting time because the "first" build has finished in the meantime.

      Eike said:

      The default setting for the Run action (actually deploy action) is "Build the Whole Project". Changable in Preferences > Build & Run > General > Build before deploying

      You can also assign a shortcut to Build > Run without Deployment or use the mnemonic for that (whatever that is? is there? I'm on macOS) and make a habit using that (I have Ctrl+Cmd+R set for that).

      I just tried that but didn't see any difference. Here are the steps I took:

      • Changed setting to "Build Only the Application to Be Run".
      • Rebased.
      • Alt+B, R.
      • Ctrl+R.
        Output from Ctrl+R: 
        16:01:07: Running steps for project QtDeclarative...
16:01:07: Starting: "/usr/bin/cmake" --build /home/mitch/dev/qt-dev-debug/qtdeclarative --target all
[1/1036 78.9/sec] Running syncqt.cpp for module: QtQuickShapes
[...]
[224/224 2.7/sec] Linking CXX shared module /home/mitch/dev/qt-dev-debug/qtbase/qml/Qt/test/controls/libquickcontrolstestutilsprivateplugin.so
16:02:32: The process "/usr/bin/cmake" exited normally.
16:02:32: Elapsed time: 01:25.

      Eike said the support for this is missing for CMake:

        1. after-ctrl-r.txt
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        2. creator-source-screenshot.png
          creator-source-screenshot.png
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        3. ctrl-b-first.txt
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        4. followed-by-ctrl-r.txt
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