Project

A Qt Creator plugin to get notified when your builds terminate and to track their stats.

Project Status

Currently the plugin is usable and the project is under development with regular releases to update it to the latest major version of Qt Creator.

People who want to start to use SIGBUILD need to build it from scratch following the instruction in the Development section.

Because of the current status of the project, it's guaranteed only that SIGBUILD will work with the latest version of Qt Creator. Previous versions are likely to work too, but they are not officially supported, so please do not create issues for them.

Current features

• Systray notifications
• Audio notifications
• Latest build info
• Session log
• Full Qt Creator options

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Development

Currently the best way to use SIGBUILD is to build Qt Creator and then build the plugin.

Ideally you want to build SIGBUILD and Qt Creator against the same version of Qt and using the same (or compatible) compiler used to build the version of Qt Creator you run. For example, Qt Creator 14.0.0 has been built against Qt 6.7.2 using gcc 10.3.1 on Linux and you should use a similar configuration when building Qt Creator and SIGBUILD.

The current versio of SIGBUILD is tested to build against the 14.0 branch of Qt Creator. In case you need to build SIGBUILD for an old version of Qt Creator (<= 6) checkout the "QtCreator-6" tag with git.

Dependencies

• Qt 6 - online installer / offline installer
• Qt Creator - online installer / offline installer
• Qt Creator source code - git repository

Note that when installing Qt you will need at least the following modules:

• Desktop binaries (ex.: Desktop gcc 64bit)
• Qt Multimedia (additional libraries) Also when installing Qt Creator you will need to include the following package:
• Qt Creator x.y.z Plugin Development

How to build Qt Creator

From inside the cloned qt-creator directory:

• Open CMakeLists.txt
• Make sure to set the CMake variable "Qt6_DIR" to the cmake directory inside the latest Qt6 directory (ex.: Qt/6.7.2/gcc_64/lib/cmake/Qt6)
• Build

How to build SIGBUILD

From inside the cloned SIGBUILD directory:

• Open CMakeLists.txt in Qt Creator
• Configure the project with a Qt6 kit
• Make sure to set the CMake variable "QtCreator_DIR" to the cmake directory of the Qt Creator build directory (ex.: qt-creator/build/Desktop_Qt_6_7_2-Debug/cmake).
• Make sure to set the CMake variable "Qt6_DIR" to the cmake directory inside the latest Qt6 directory (ex.: Qt/6.7.2/gcc_64/lib/cmake/Qt6)
• Run CMake
• Build

How to run SIGBUILD

Start an instance of Qt Creator with the following command line option: -pluginpath SIGBUILD_BUILD_DIRECTORY

Releases

The latest release version is 0.4.2 (30 Oct 2023).

How to install a SIGBUILD release

• Download a build from the release page
• Start Qt Creator
• In Qt Creator go to: "Help > About Plugins"
• Push the "Install Plugin" button
• Select the build you downloaded and follow the installation wizard