On 8/3/21 8:23 PM, Ross Boylan wrote:
If this is the intended behavior, I suggest the intentions should change. At a minimum, some clues in a README.Debian would be helpful. Ross
There are many ways to use Qt Creator. You can use it to make a Hello World C application. In this case, you only need GCC or clang compiler installed.
You can use it to make a regular C++ application, then you need a C++ compiler installed.
If you want Qt, you need to install the Qt modules you want to use. Qt Creator is not there to hand-hold you. In reality, if you installed upstream version, you would get the entire bundled Qt which Debian doesn't provide as a single package.
So, you have two choices here,1. find the -dev modules to install that your program uses and install them, or 2. download some Qt version from upstream, and compile it with your parameters and then point Qt Creator at it.
#2 is not that difficult - that's what I've done for a decade.As a regular user, you would expect a program to work mostly out of the box. But as a developer, you are expected to receive a little less hand-holding here.
So, if you run `cmake` or `qmake` and then `make` in a terminal and it works and Qt Creator still fails (after you define your kits, which actually should be automatic for system installed libraries), that's a bug. If the terminal method also fails, it's not a creator bug.
- Adam