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Suggestion
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Resolution: Fixed
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Qt Creator 6.0.1
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1d5c58775 (10.0)
Description
If I search Google for "compile qt creator from git", the first hit is this wiki page: https://wiki.qt.io/Building_Qt_Creator_from_Git
It links to README.md:
https://github.com/qt-creator/qt-creator/blob/master/README.md#compiling-qt-creator
In the Windows section (MSVC build), backslashes are used in some path example and forward slashes in others.
It would be helpful if the examples made this more explicit. Something like this would have been helpful:
"-DCMAKE_PREFIX_PATH=C:\Qt\qt6.2;C:\Program Files\LLVM"
Later, in the options section, it says that installation is not needed. However when I tried to run qtcreator.exe in the build directory, Windows couldn't find all of the supporting .dll files. So I tried the first install command and got the same problem. I then tried the self-contained installation and that was successful.
However with the self-install command none of the .pdb files that were built were copied into the installation directory (I used DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=RelWithDebInfo in the cmake configuration command and the .pdb files exist in the build directory). It would be helpful to specify how one makes a self-install that also installs the .pdb files, if that's possible.
In case it is not yet obvious, I am a cmake neophyte. Maybe the above points are obvious to someone familiar with cmake.