We are happy to announce the release of Qt Creator 7!
General
We split up the New File or Project menu item into separate New File and New Project items. That also means a new shortcut for New Project.
If you are using the Qt Online Installer, update notifications in Qt Creator now also include new minor Qt versions and patch releases to the latest available Qt version. You can configure this in Options > Environment > Updates.
Editing
Our packages now use LLVM 14 for C++ support. We also switched to Clangd as the default backend for our code model! If you face issues with that, please create a bug report for us on the bug tracker. If you specifically have issues with Clangd's global indexing (the progress bar titled "Indexing project with Clangd"), you can turn that off in the C++ > Clangd > Enable background indexing setting. Qt Creator will then use Clangd for code completion and highlighting for the current document, but our built-in indexer for the global index. Turning the use of Clangd off completely is also possible on that page. In that case our built-in indexer is used for the global index, and libclang for the current document, like in previous versions of Qt Creator. But, please report your issues to us as well.
If you use the ClangFormat plugin, its settings have been merged into the non-ClangFormat code style settings. See the new tab there.
We also updated the QML parser to the newest version from Qt.
Projects
We did lots of improvements to the CMake configuration in Projects mode. Please see the separate blog post for details!
We improved the automatic (re-)detection of toolchains and removed some unnecessary compiler calls at startup, improving the Qt Creator startup times in certain configurations.
Our project wizards now assume C++17 as the C++ standard.
Platforms
For Android we added an option for the default NDK, and fixed the detection of available NDK platforms for recent NDKs.
On Linux we now ship the Wayland backend for Qt. Note that that is not used by default on Gnome with Wayland, but you can force that even there by setting the environment variable QT_QPA_PLATFORM=wayland.
On macOS Qt Creator now uses the systems dark mode when setting a dark theme, and we fixed that user applications inherited access permissions from Qt Creator. If your application accesses restricted resources, this will be better reflected now while developing the application with Qt Creator.
We added experimental support for Docker on macOS, besides continuing the work of making Qt Creator internals work better with remote paths.
Please check our change log for more details on improvements in Qt Creator 7!
Get Qt Creator 7
The opensource version is available on the Qt download page under "Qt Creator", and you find commercially licensed packages on the Qt Account Portal. Qt Creator 7 is also available as an update in the online installer. Please post issues in our bug tracker. You can also find us on IRC on #qt-creator on irc.libera.chat, 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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The feature of using Docker is really cool, but please make a tutorial of how to use docker with QtCreator. I can not make it to work (
At the moment the links on the download page are incorrect, they should start with https://download.qt.io/official_releases/qtcreator/7.0 (they currently have 6.0 instead of 7.0)
Ups. Fixed.
Clangd's global indexing is utterly slow on our projects... had to disable it
Could you please create a bug report? Do you happen to be on Windows?
Yes i'm on windows I can create a bug report but can't give a reproduction scheme, just use a big cmake project
There are some things to clarify, and that is easier in a bug report.
Here you go : https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/QTCREATORBUG-27264
I'm trying it right now, it's terribly slow, much worse than version 6.
I've been trying the Qt5 snapshots from this location (thanks for doing this): https://download.qt.io/snapshots/qtcreator_qt5/7.0/7.0.0/ However, I see this message in the Clangd tab under C++: QtCreator-7.0.0/libexec/qtcreator/clang/bin/clangd The clangd version is 12.0.0, but13 or greater is required. I looked at that location, and indeed, it appears to be packaged with clang-12. Looks like it should be clang-14 instead?
It might be that the build scripts for the Qt5 package are outdated. You can update your clang installation with the binaries from https://download.qt.io/development_releases/prebuilt/libclang/
Any chance you could update the build scripts and let us know once it's done?
Please open up a bugreport, that's the official way of tracking things like this. 🙂
Done. https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/QTCREATORBUG-27247
Good news. Is there a real debugger console finally?
It would be nice to make some development changes too. E.g. Am I understand correctly that qmake plugin files (qtcreatorplugin.pri) are gone now? I can't find any mentions of that neither here not in changelog, only by git logs (commit 9d8a419d107ae8219c84bc9178bfed76b94fa930). Please, be more open to people who maintain Qt Creator plugins.
I've tried to build from sources QtCreator 7.0 having on raspberry installed only Qt-6.2.3 and it fails because it cannot find Qt5 I assume from FindQt5.cmake
I would have expected something like FindQt6.cmake
Qt Creator can be built with both Qt5 and Qt6, and the code is generating Qt5::Targets aliases for Qt6::Targets.
I assume you are cross-compiling and the CMake code gets confused. I don't think cross-compilation is something we tested with Qt Creator itself.
How did you try to configure Qt Creator?
Edit: a bug report would be a better place for this discussion.
Hi!
I'm not doing any cross-compiling. I'm compiling or trying to on the actual raspberry device. Since th SD card is slow and doesn't have enough capacity, I've extracted the sources on a networked hard disk, trying to compile there and on success install on the SD card.
As far as I can see, QtCreator 7 doesn't come with a configure program. I've followed the
README.mdfilecmake -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release -G Ninja cmake --build .The first I assume configures the the environment and the second will build it. But the first one fails. Even if I add the extra information "-DCMAKEPREFIXPATH=/path/to/Qt;/path/to/llvm" /path/to/qtcreator_sources The step failes
What I did, was first to configure, build and install Qt 6.2.3 (which took several days xa xa xa) using for configuration parameters:
-shared -static -glib -gtk -opengles3 -opengl es2 -eglfs -egl -opensource -confirm-license -release -qpa eglfs -prefix /usr/local/Qt-6.2.3Tested that it works by compiling a simple c++ program from command lineThen tried the QtCreator and had the errors below (the same errors also if I didn't use command line cmake, but use cmake-gui): ```` CMake Error at /usr/local/Qt-6.2.3/lib/cmake/Qt6Core/Qt6CoreMacros.cmake:1541 (gettargetproperty): gettargetproperty() called with non-existent target "Qt6::QXcbGlxIntegrationPlugin_init". Call Stack (most recent call first): /usr/local/Qt-6.2.3/lib/cmake/Qt6/QtPublicPluginHelpers.cmake:198 (qtinternalpropagateobjectlibrary) /usr/local/Qt-6.2.3/lib/cmake/Qt6Gui/Qt6GuiPlugins.cmake:53 (qtinternaladdstaticpluginimportmacro) /usr/local/Qt-6.2.3/lib/cmake/Qt6Gui/Qt6GuiPlugins.cmake:66 (_qtinternaladdstaticpluginsonce) /usr/local/Qt-6.2.3/lib/cmake/Qt6Gui/Qt6GuiConfig.cmake:121 (include) /usr/local/Qt-6.2.3/lib/cmake/Qt6/Qt6Config.cmake:177 (findpackage) cmake/FindQt5.cmake:57 (findpackage) CMakeLists.txt:56 (find_package)
CMake Error at cmake/FindQt5.cmake:64 (setproperty): Attempt to promote imported target "Qt6::Test" to global scope (by setting IMPORTEDGLOBAL) which is not built in this directory. Call Stack (most recent call first): src/libs/extensionsystem/CMakeLists.txt:21 (find_package)
CMake Error at cmake/FindQt5.cmake:68 (setproperty): Attempt to promote imported target "Qt6::TestPrivate" to global scope (by setting IMPORTEDGLOBAL) which is not built in this directory. Call Stack (most recent call first): src/libs/extensionsystem/CMakeLists.txt:21 (find_package)
Make Error at cmake/FindQt5.cmake:64 (setproperty): Attempt to promote imported target "Qt6::Quick3D" to global scope (by setting IMPORTEDGLOBAL) which is not built in this directory. Call Stack (most recent call first): src/tools/qml2puppet/CMakeLists.txt:145 (find_package)
CMake Error at cmake/FindQt5.cmake:68 (setproperty): Attempt to promote imported target "Qt6::Quick3DPrivate" to global scope (by setting IMPORTEDGLOBAL) which is not built in this directory. Call Stack (most recent call first): src/tools/qml2puppet/CMakeLists.txt:145 (find_package)
CMake Error at cmake/FindQt5.cmake:64 (setproperty): Attempt to promote imported target "Qt6::Quick3DAssetImport" to global scope (by setting IMPORTEDGLOBAL) which is not built in this directory. Call Stack (most recent call first): src/tools/qml2puppet/CMakeLists.txt:165 (find_package)
CMake Error at cmake/FindQt5.cmake:68 (setproperty): Attempt to promote imported target "Qt6::Quick3DAssetImportPrivate" to global scope (by setting IMPORTEDGLOBAL) which is not built in this directory. Call Stack (most recent call first): src/tools/qml2puppet/CMakeLists.txt:165 (find_package)
CMake Error at cmake/FindQt5.cmake:64 (setproperty): Attempt to promote imported target "Qt6::Quick3DParticles" to global scope (by setting IMPORTEDGLOBAL) which is not built in this directory. Call Stack (most recent call first): src/tools/qml2puppet/CMakeLists.txt:173 (find_package)
CMake Error at cmake/FindQt5.cmake:68 (setproperty): Attempt to promote imported target "Qt6::Quick3DParticlesPrivate" to global scope (by setting IMPORTEDGLOBAL) which is not built in this directory. Call Stack (most recent call first): src/tools/qml2puppet/CMakeLists.txt:173 (find_package)
CMake Error at cmake/FindQt5.cmake:64 (setproperty): Attempt to promote imported target "Qt6::Quick3DAssetUtils" to global scope (by setting IMPORTEDGLOBAL) which is not built in this directory. Call Stack (most recent call first): src/tools/qml2puppet/CMakeLists.txt:182 (find_package)
CMake Error at cmake/FindQt5.cmake:68 (setproperty): Attempt to promote imported target "Qt6::Quick3DAssetUtilsPrivate" to global scope (by setting IMPORTEDGLOBAL) which is not built in this directory. Call Stack (most recent call first): src/tools/qml2puppet/CMakeLists.txt:182 (find_package)
CMake Error at cmake/FindQt5.cmake:64 (setproperty): Attempt to promote imported target "Qt6::QuickTimeline" to global scope (by setting IMPORTEDGLOBAL) which is not built in this directory. Call Stack (most recent call first): src/tools/qml2puppet/CMakeLists.txt:182 (find_package)
CMake Error at cmake/FindQt5.cmake:68 (setproperty): Attempt to promote imported target "Qt6::QuickTimelinePrivate" to global scope (by setting IMPORTEDGLOBAL) which is not built in this directory. Call Stack (most recent call first): src/tools/qml2puppet/CMakeLists.txt:182 (find_package)
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Since I'm using the non-commercial license for personal use and don't have some paying account can I open a ticket to report a bug?
You can report bugs if you are using a non-commercial license.
Also you might want to build only the plugins that you are interested, since the platform is limited. You can do this by passing these CMake parameters:
-D "BUILD_PLUGINS=Core;Designer;DiffEditor;TextEditor;ProjectExplorer;CppTools;CppEditor;CodePaster;Git;Help;QmakeProjectManager;CMakeProjectManager;ClangCodeModel;ClangTools;Debugger;QtSupport;ResourceEditor;VcsBase;Welcome;LanguageClient" -D "BUILD_EXECUTABLES=QtCreator;ClangBackend;qtcreator_ctrlc_stub;qtcreator_process_stub;win64interrupt;qtcreator_processlauncher"I have gist containing a build script at https://gist.github.com/cristianadam/6f72a37c9af135fdce714719ad42f0a5
I've opened a ticket and already received an answer. I'm doing things in a way no one else has done, so they don't know if it works
https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/QTCREATORBUG-27317
I'll have to try their suggestions
Android kits (5.12.12) are no longer usable after updated to V7 (Linux installation). Is there a way I rollback to previous version or to solve the missing Android kits?
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How do I enable "format on save" for clang-format now? It seems that the option in the ui is gone.
Hi Leander, You are right it's gone for now. Sorry for the inconvenience. I will bring it back in the next release.There is one workaround you can go to (linux: ~/.config/QtProject/QtCreator.ini, windows: %appdata%\QtProject\QtCreator.ini), find a section [ClangFormat], and set true for FormatCodeOnSave and others if you need.https://doc.qt.io/qtcreator/creator-quick-tour.html#location-of-settings-files
if create new class add new -> C/C++ -> C++ Class PC load cpu 100% and big jump in memory usage this was not a problem before https://i.imgur.com/1O6rGcZ.png