Premake Project Manager

"Premake":http://industriousone.com/premake 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
h2. 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:

<br />git://gitorious.org/qtcreator-premake-plugin/qtcreator-premake-plugin.git<br />git submodule init<br />git submodule update<br />

and follow instruction in README file.

h2. Usage
Open project file "premake4.lua" in Qt Creator just like you open .pro files.
h3. Simple Qt project

<br />require &quot;qt-support&amp;quot;
<br />solution &quot;MyApplication&amp;quot;<br /> configurations { &quot;Debug&amp;quot;, &quot;Release&amp;quot; }
<br /> project &quot;MyApplication&amp;quot;<br /> kind &quot;WindowedApp&amp;quot;<br /> language &quot;C''+&quot;<br /> uses &quot;Qt&amp;quot;<br /> files {<br /> &quot;src/*'''.h&amp;quot;,<br /> &quot;src/.cpp&amp;quot;,<br /> &quot;src/.ui&amp;quot;,<br /> &quot;src/.qrc&amp;quot;<br /> }<br /> configuration &quot;Debug&amp;quot;<br /> flags { &quot;Symbols&amp;quot; }
<br /> configuration &quot;Release&amp;quot;<br /> flags { &quot;Optimize&amp;quot; }<br />

h3. 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
h3. More complex examples
https://github.com/annulen/qt-examples-premake
h2. 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 executables Available in master
* No project create/import wizard
* Debugging from IDE on Windows is broken