We are happy to announce the release of Qt Creator 4.13 Beta!
Here are some excerpts from our change log:
New Experimental Plugins
Thanks to Alexis Jeandet for initial support for the Meson build system!
Thanks to IncrediBuild for contributing their Qt Creator integration!
You need to open Help > About Plugins (or Qt Creator > About Plugins on macOS) and enable these plugins before you can use them.
Editing
We updated LLVM for the C++ code model to LLVM 10, implicitly improving support for C++20 features.
We fixed many smaller issues with the C++ code model.
Our client for the language server protocol now supports renaming symbols if the server supports it.
The Python code editor now has a tool button and action for opening Python interactively with the current document.
CMake Projects
We removed the internal cache of CMake variables. An existing build directory is now the sole truth about the project. The initial CMake configuration that is passed to fresh builds is set by the user and saved in the Qt Creator project configuration (defaulting to the kit settings). This removes annoying conflicts between what Qt Creator thinks should be right, and existing build directories. Please give this a test and report issues in our bug tracker, since we expect that there are still some rough edges left :) .
Only CMake version 3.14 and later are directly supported anymore, so CMake versions that support file-api.
We added the option to pass arguments to "cmake --build" directly, not only arguments to the build tool itself.
Android
You can edit services and splash screen in the manifest editor.
We fixed QML debugging and profiling, and C++ debugging that was failing in some configurations.
Analyzing and Testing
In-editor marks are back for clazy and clang-tidy issues.
We added support for the Catch2 test framework.
Get Qt Creator 4.13 Beta
The opensource version is available on the Qt download page under "Pre-releases", and you find commercially licensed packages on the Qt Account Portal. Qt Creator 4.13 Beta is also available under Preview > Qt Creator 4.13.0-beta1 in the online installer. Please post issues in our bug tracker. You can also find us on IRC on #qt-creator on chat.freenode.net, and on the Qt Creator mailing list.
You can read the Qt Creator Manual in Qt Creator in the Help mode or access it online in the Qt documentation portal.
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OMG!! This is Great news. I always wanted to work with meson but lack of support in Qt Creator stopped me from using it
A nice feature for QtCreator (Maybe it has this) would be to define C++ headers using #pragma once; instead of: #ifndef CLASS_NAME
define CLASS_NAME
Surely the "#pragma once" must be a standard available on all platforms
Yes, it is there, albeit well hidden. Under Options -> C++ -> File Naming -> Headers, there is a checkbox to use #pragma once instead of #ifdef. By default it is still on #ifdef, which I agree seems old-fashioned, these days.
See: https://bugreports.qt.io/secure/attachment/96776/UsePragmaOnceInWizards.png
hooray for Catch2 support. Thanks!
The command "/Users/wstokes/Applications/Qt Creator 4.13.0-beta1/Qt Creator.app/Contents/Resources/libexec/clang/bin/clazy-standalone -list-checks" terminated abnormally. dyld: Library not loaded: @rpath/ClazyPlugin.dylib Referenced from: /Users/wstokes/Applications/Qt Creator 4.13.0-beta1/Qt Creator.app/Contents/Resources/libexec/clang/bin/clazy-standalone Reason: image not found
It looks like we have a packaging problem in Qt Creator. Download https://download.qt.io/development_releases/prebuilt/libclang/libclang-release_100-based-mac.7z and extract the missing libraries.
We removed the internal cache of CMake variables...fresh builds is set by the user and saved in the Qt Creator project configuration- finally. This was really painful to deal with.YES! Thank you to whoever did this <3
Congrats! But the
broke again and is not clickable :)
If this worked before, it was by accident. Obviously, you cannot expect random message formats to get detected magically. But note that you can now add custom output parsers to your build and run configurations, allowing you to detect arbitrary patterns in the output and creating entries in the issues pane from them.