Required to update Qt .pro and Visual Studio .vcxproj on new file additions

Question

I'm developing using Qt Creator and Visual Studio. However, if I add a new file to the project through Visual Studio the Qt .pro file is out of sync and does not show the new file. Additionally, if I add a new file via Qt Creator the .vcxproj file doesn't get updated and therefore Visual Studio is out of sync.

I am using Visual Studio on Windows and Qt Creator on Linux.

Is there a proper way to manage this type of situation or is this something I just need to keep updated manually if I want the two project files?

Answer 1

There are a few options:

1) Use only Qt Creator, since it runs on both windows and linux it's an good option.

2) Only use the .pro to add files (options/etc), basically only use qmake build system to modify the anything build related and after each change re-create the VS files by using Open Qt project file (.pro) from Qt menu in Visual Studio.

3) Use a completely different build option that can be used on all the platforms you need, for example cmake is a good option and both Visual Studio and Qt Creator have support for it (i didn't used it, so i don't know how easy it's to setup, but i assume it should be relatively easy).