How to remote compile in QtCreator

Question

I am developing an application using QtCreator in Mac OS X and it must be cross-platform.

I have a Mac OS X as host. Also I have a MS Windows installed on virtual machine and a Ubuntu installed on another virtual machine:

• Mac OS X: Qt 5.4.0 - 64bit - clang - Xcode 6.0
• MS Windows: Qt 5.3.0 - 32bit - VC++ 2013
• Ubuntu: Qt 5.3.0 - 64bit - GCC

How can I develop my application in Mac OS and build it in another platforms (Mac/Windows/Ubuntu) all at once?

Is there any remote compiler option in QtCreator?

Answer 1

I don't think you can remote compile in Qt Creator but you can use a continuous build system like Jenkins to setup a distributed build environment. Build slaves in all your VMs would compile on commit in your SCM like git or Subversion.

Advantages of this approach:

• works on all major platforms like Linux, MacOS, Windows
• .. and for all major compilers
• you can build on any number of platforms regardless of Qt Creator support
• you can get help easily because this is done in many professional systems
• you can distribute your development
• you can use any IDE
• you have great flexibility and tons of plugins which make life easy

Note: There are many more CI systems out there, see here.