Building QML Desktop Components with Visual Studio using CMake

Easy way to build Qt-Desktop-Components in Visual Studio using Cmake

by Markus Bohms & Michael Wagner from shared-reality.com

Preparations

• Download & Unzip QmlComponentsTest.zip to c:\QmlComponentsTest
• QmlComponentsTest/extern/ contains the qml-desktop components matsterbranch from : "git://gitorious.org/qt-components/desktop.git"

• in order to use the examples standalone we have to change the import QtDesktop 0.1 statement to point to our extern\desktop\components directory, so change it to import "../components" 0.1
  
  
  
  

For example change extern/desktop/examples/gallery.qml as follows:

Make sure to use the correct relative path for example if you change examples/content/panel.qml you have to use import "../../components" <version>

*<version> can change through developement of qt-dekstop-components!

Also you have to check if a qml inside of components imports QtDesktop and change this import, too - at the moment splitter.qml uses the import QtDesktop statement.

Building

• use the CMakefile placed in "QmlComponentsTest/CMakeLists.txt" to create the project for VS2010, gcc, or any other compiler you want to use. We're doing an out-of-source build which means that all generated stuff like Visual Studio project files go to /BUILD and the source tree doesnt get polluted

• the VisualStudio project contains now three subprojects called styleplugin, INSTALL and ExampleBrowser

1. Build the plugin target - it should be created in "QmlComponentsTest/components/plugins/styleplugin.dll" , .lib ...
2. Build INSTALL target - this will copy the needed QT-Dlls and the components to "QmlComponentsTest/bin/<Debug/Release/etc.>"
3. Build the ExampleBrowser and select it as startup-project.  When starting out of Visual Studio make sure that the workingdirectory is set to  "QmlComponentsTest/bin/<Debug/Release/etc.>" (see Debug Settings)

Run ExampleBrowser.exe and use the dropdown menu on top to switch between the examples.

There are many ways to get this plugin to work, but this is a easy and fast way to get it to work if you are not using QtCreator.