How to configure CLion IDE for Qt Framework?

Is this IDE compatible with Qt, or are there other IDEs compatible with Qt?

I just want to try to use something else than Qt Creator.

解决方案

I was as desperate as you, until I read this Quora discussion.

It worked perfectly for me!

To summarize, there are 2 main steps:

Firstly, CLion uses CMake to compile your code. It is based on CMake configuration files (e.g "CMakeLists.txt"). You have to add Qt based CMake commands (the lines with 'find_package' and 'target_link_libraries'):

cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 3.5)

project(myqtproject)

set(CMAKE_CXX_FLAGS "${CMAKE_CXX_FLAGS} -std=c++11")

set(SOURCE_FILES main.cpp)

find_package(Qt5Widgets REQUIRED)

add_executable(myqtproject ${SOURCE_FILES})

target_link_libraries(myqtproject Qt5::Widgets)

Secondly, CLion has to use the cmake binary installed by Qt. For that, go to:

'Preferences' -> 'Build, Execution, Deployment' -> 'CMake' and in 'CMake options' append the CMake path that Qt uses, which should be in the directory where Qt is installed. For instance, on OSX:

-DCMAKE_PREFIX_PATH=/Users/edouard/Qt/5.7/clang_64/lib/cmake

You can test that everything is working fine, by doing a little test script in main.cpp:

#include

#include

using namespace std;

int main() {

qDebug() << QT_VERSION_STR;

return 1;

}

Which should display something like:

/Users/edouard/Library/Caches/CLion2016.2/cmake/generated/myqtproject-89a4132/89a4132/Debug/untitled

5.7.0

Process finished with exit code 1

UPDATE

I was stuck with the problem of adding Qt5 modules (for instance QSql). You can do this by adding in the CMakeLists.txt:

find_package(Qt5Sql REQUIRED)

just after the other find_package, and adding in the last line:

target_link_libraries(myqtproject Qt5::Widgets Qt5::Sql)

You can do this with all the other Qt5 modules.