Premake Project Manager
Premake [industriousone.com] is a build configuration tool allowing user to describe C, C++, or C# software project using a simple, easy to read syntax. Main features are:
- Declarative syntax based on Lua
- Full power of general purpose language (Lua) available for non-trivial tasks
- Generation of project files for popular IDEs including Visual Studio and Xcode, which don’t require presence of Premake executable on actual build host
- Support for flexible build configuration, exposed to user as configure-style options
- Support for cross-compilation
- Distributed as small sized single executable without external dependencies
- Unlimited extensibility – define new APIs, build tools, or even change behavior of build system internals from within your project!
- Support for building Qt projects – see [1]
This plugin allows user to open, browse, build, and debug Premake projects inside Qt Creator.
- Maintainer: Konstantin Tokarev (annulen on freenode.net)
- Repository: https://gitorious.org/qtcreator-premake-plugin
Installation
You can get binary version for Windows from [2]. For other operating systems, or if you want bleeding edge version, get the source code:
and follow instruction in README file.
Usage
Open project file “premake4.lua” in Qt Creator just like you open .pro files.
Simple Qt project
More documentation
https://bitbucket.org/premake/premake-dev/wiki/Getting_started_with_Qt_and_Premake
https://bitbucket.org/premake/premake-dev/wiki/Qt_add-on_reference_manual
More complex examples
https://github.com/annulen/qt-examples-premake
Current status
Right now plugin is of “beta” quality.
- Works on Linux, Mac OS X, and Windows
- Source compatible with Qt Creator 2.3, 2.4, and 2.5
- Allows to open and browse premake4.lua projects
- Allows to change toolchains and Qt versions from GUI
- Imports build configurations from project file
- Includes basic Lua editor to simplify project writing
What is missing
Run configurations are not created automatically for built executablesAvailable in master- No project create/import wizard
- Debugging from IDE on Windows is broken