How to remotely compile in QtCreator

Question

I am developing an application using QtCreator on Mac OS X, and it must be cross-platform.

I have Mac OS X as a host. I also have MS Windows installed on a virtual machine, and Ubuntu is installed on another virtual machine:

• Mac OS X: Qt 5.4.0 - 64bit - clang - Xcode 6.0
• MS Windows: Qt 5.3.0 - 32bit - VC ++ 2013
• Ubuntu: Qt 5.3.0 - 64bit - GCC

How can I develop my application on Mac OS and create it on other platforms (Mac / Windows / Ubuntu) at the same time?

Is there a remote compiler option in QtCreator?

Answer 1

I do not think that you can remove in the compilation of Qt Creator, but you can use a continuous build system, such as Jenkins , to establish a distributed build environment . The subordinate assembly in all of your virtual machines will compile when committed in your SCM, such as git or Subversion.

The advantages of this approach:

• works on all major platforms such as Linux, MacOS, Windows
• .. and for all major compilers
• You can use any number of platforms regardless of Qt Creator support.
• you can easily get help because it is done in many professional systems.
• You can distribute your development.
• you can use any IDE
• you have great flexibility and tons of plugins that make life easier.

Note. There are many more CI systems, see here .

Answer 2

I am using remote compilation from windows. I created a custom build step using plink so that I would not execute a remote command using key authorization that starts the build. Qt creator may even parse errors :)

Brief instructions for setting it up:

• Create public key authentication for the user in the putty and configure the connection to your server: https://www.howtoforge.com/how-to-configure-ssh-keys-authentication-with-putty-and-linux-server-in-5 -quick-steps

• Download plink: https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/latest.html

• In your QtCreator project, configure the “Custom Process Step” to connect to your server and start compiling. Assuming you have:

  • putty session on your build server configured and named CentOS7_local
  • username
  • a project located in the user's home directory with the name projectname you can use something like this (if you need more complex assembly creation, you can create a bash script on the server and call it):