Can't manage to install this plugin

drug007 commented 9 years ago

What shoul I do to install it?

Groterik commented 9 years ago

In a nutshell:

You should have the latest stable QtCreator installed and its sources.
Clone this repository and compile the plugin.
Download or build DCD.
Open QtCreator and enable the plugin.
Open QtCreator's settings and configure the plugin.

If you have any questions, issues or suggestions don't hesitate to ask me.

drug007 commented 9 years ago

I have built plugin itself, but can't understand how to install it. Also I have built example of simple qt creator plugin (using these instructions) and this plugin was installed automatically - it appeared in menu. So first question is how I can understand that plugin has been installed and how can I install it if it haven't. Instructions for other your project say that I have to copy two files in specific directory, but after successful building I have only one of these files - .so lib. I use qt creator 3.5.81 (IIRC - I did it at home, now I'm at office), but I isn't installed, although I use path to these version, system wide version is another, could it be the reason?

Groterik commented 9 years ago

Actually if you built it using default configuration, the plugin would be placed into default directory that QtCreator uses to load user's plugins. But it depends on the environment. The output directory is shown during qmake step. Also it is possible to set plugin directory manually with -pluginpath <path_to_dir_with_so> command line argument for QtCreator according to the doc page. I believe .so is enough for recent QtC. As the first step I would suggest to use this argument.

drug007 commented 9 years ago

Thanks for help, I'll try it at home. But what changes after plugin installation? For example, ability to create D project appears or something else.

Groterik commented 9 years ago

If the plugins appear in QtC Help -> About plugins and can be enabled, then special settings will be accessible in the menu Tools -> Options -> D and Build & Run -> DubManager. You will probably need to restart QtC. It will be a good sign that everything is correct and is ready to use. DubManager provides a project tree, build and run configurations, errors and warnings for DUB projects, as well as ability to create DUB project via QtC's wizard. DlangEditor provides an autocompletion, function tooltips, help and so on.

drug007 commented 9 years ago

DlangEditor Plugin installs, I have access to settings in the menu Tools->Options->D, but DubManager doesn't compile (issue here). Can I create D project without DubManager plugin?

stonemaster commented 9 years ago

You can always create a DUB project on command line using dub init test and then opening the D files manually in Qt Creator.

kindlychung commented 8 years ago

The documentation seems a bit vague, could you provide a more concrete setup example? Thanks for your hard work.

For example, is the following modification in dlangeditor.pro correct?

## set the QTC_SOURCE environment variable to override the setting here
QTC_SOURCE = /Users/kaiyin/Qt/qt-creator
QTCREATOR_SOURCES = $$QTC_SOURCE
isEmpty(QTCREATOR_SOURCES):QTCREATOR_SOURCES=/usr/src/qtcreator
!exists($$QTCREATOR_SOURCES):\
    error("Set variable QTC_SOURCE to the QtCreator's sources path (current path is \"$$QTC_SOURCE\")")

Now I understand QTC_SOURCE is the source of qt creator (https://github.com/qtproject/qt-creator), but what does QTC_BUILD mean and where can I find it?

Thanks again.