> On 3. May 2019, at 16:52, Artem Razin <[email protected]> wrote: > > Oh, got the point! > > Regarding the idea of installing to > %LOCALAPPDATA%\QtProject\qtcreator\plugins\X.Y.Z, will it work if both > 32-bit and 64-bit of Qt Creator of the same versions X.Y.Z > installed?..
Hm, interesting. No, it doesn’t take into account different bitness, nor different compilers (mingw/msvc/...), nor different Qt versions (there are chances that a plugin that uses Qt 5.X fails to load with a Qt Creator coming with Qt 5.X-1, e.g. if it uses new API), or any other difference in configuration that might exist. I’m not sure if we can, or even should try to solve that issue... > It seems that no and I again have to return to the task > of detection of all installed Qt Creators. How do you decide if the detected Qt Creator fits your plugin configuration? > On Fri, May 3, 2019 at 5:35 PM Eike Ziller <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> >> >>> On 3. May 2019, at 16:04, Artem Razin <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> Hi Eike, >>> >>>> Since “installing” a plugin in Qt Creator means to just drop some files >>>> somewhere, you probably could just ask? >>> >>> Yes, but it would look a bit weird because there is some installer >>> already that installs Deleaker to Visual Studio, RAD Studio, as a >>> standalone application and if it suddenly asked to copy some dll to >>> some location... Of course, developers are able to copy a file :) but >>> if an installer copied the file it would be much better! >> >> I meant that the installer could ask for the install location(s) of Qt >> Creator where it shall install the files to :) >> >>> >>>> Another location that Qt Creator looks for _user_ specific plugins is in >>>> %LOCALAPPDATA%\QtProject\qtcreator\plugins\X.Y.Z >>>> where X.Y.Z is the Qt Creator version. >>> >>> Just tried and indeed it works very well. Thank you for the idea. >>> >>> So now an installer can just create folders X.Y.Z for all supported >>> versions and place a plugin dll to each folder. >>> >>> Thank you! >>> >>> On Fri, May 3, 2019 at 10:05 AM Eike Ziller <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>>> On 2. May 2019, at 18:34, Artem Razin <[email protected]> wrote: >>>>> >>>>> Hi, >>>>> >>>>> I am really a newbie in Qt world, and unfortunately Google didn't help >>>>> me this time. >>>>> >>>>> Currently I am working on an installer for my plugin for Qt Creator on >>>>> Windows, but I just can't find a good way to enumerate all installed >>>>> Qt Creators (to copy the plugin dll to a plugin directory of each >>>>> installed version). >>>>> >>>>> I realized that (at least) fresh Qt builds can be found in >>>>> HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\***, >>>>> so an installer could check all such entries, then check presence of >>>>> qtcreator.exe in <InstallLocation>\Tools\QtCreator\bin\qtcreator.exe >>>>> (<InstallLocation> is a value of "InstallLocation" in >>>>> HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\***). >>>>> >>>>> Is there a better way? >>>>> >>>>> Might it happen that this way will not work, i.e. probably there is >>>>> another way of installing Qt Creator? >>>> >>>> There are the Qt Creator-only offline installers which install to >>>> <InstallLocation>\bin\qtcreator.exe >>>> And I think e.g. chocolatey has a Qt Creator package too, and possibly >>>> other “unofficial” ways. >>>> >>>>> What's a common way to distribute Qt creator plugins? Just looked at >>>>> qtc-cppcheck, and they just distribute a compiled dll, without an >>>>> installer at all... >>>> >>>> Since “installing” a plugin in Qt Creator means to just drop some files >>>> somewhere, you probably could just ask? >>>> >>>> Another location that Qt Creator looks for _user_ specific plugins is in >>>> %LOCALAPPDATA%\QtProject\qtcreator\plugins\X.Y.Z >>>> where X.Y.Z is the Qt Creator version. >>>> >>>> Which makes me aware that we should probably make it look in X.Y too >>>> nowadays, since we provide binary compatibility through patch releases >>>> since a while... >>>> >>>> Br, Eike >>>> >>>> -- >>>> Eike Ziller >>>> Principal Software Engineer >>>> >>>> The Qt Company GmbH >>>> Rudower Chaussee 13 >>>> D-12489 Berlin >>>> [email protected] >>>> http://qt.io >>>> Geschäftsführer: Mika Pälsi, >>>> Juha Varelius, Mika Harjuaho >>>> Sitz der Gesellschaft: Berlin, Registergericht: Amtsgericht >>>> Charlottenburg, HRB 144331 B >>>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> Best regards, >>> Artem A. Razin >> >> -- >> Eike Ziller >> Principal Software Engineer >> >> The Qt Company GmbH >> Rudower Chaussee 13 >> D-12489 Berlin >> [email protected] >> http://qt.io >> Geschäftsführer: Mika Pälsi, >> Juha Varelius, Mika Harjuaho >> Sitz der Gesellschaft: Berlin, Registergericht: Amtsgericht Charlottenburg, >> HRB 144331 B >> > > > -- > Best regards, > Artem A. Razin -- Eike Ziller Principal Software Engineer The Qt Company GmbH Rudower Chaussee 13 D-12489 Berlin [email protected] http://qt.io Geschäftsführer: Mika Pälsi, Juha Varelius, Mika Harjuaho Sitz der Gesellschaft: Berlin, Registergericht: Amtsgericht Charlottenburg, HRB 144331 B _______________________________________________ Qt-creator mailing list [email protected] https://lists.qt-project.org/listinfo/qt-creator
