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[Marc Deslauriers <marc.deslauriers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

On 2015-02-01 02:35 PM, Robert Schroll wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I've been banging my head against this for quite a few hours and am getting
> nowhere, so maybe someone out there can help: Sometime in the past few months,
> Beru [1] has lost the ability to be run from within Qt Creator.  When I hit the
> run button, it compiles, makes a click package, and puts in the device, although
> with the launcher script.  And then it pops up a dialog, "Could not find the
> executable, please specify one" [2].  If I put a command in there, it tries to
> run it in the build chroot.
> 
> When I look at the project tab, I see that the "Run configuration" is set to
> "Custom Executable", and it has various options for the executable and command
> line.  In contrast, if I create a new project, it has a "Run configuration" of
> the name of the project and no options. I've tried deleting my *.user file from
> Beru, but this persists.  I've tried copying over the relevant bits from the
> *.user file in the new project into Beru's copy, but they get overwritten as
> soon as Qt Creator starts.  I've tried cloning Beru into a new directory, and Qt
> Creator sets the new project up the exact same way.
> 
> As I said, this used to work a few months ago.  I don't think I've changed
> anything build-related since then.  I do know Qt Creator and its Ubuntu plugins
> have been updated since then, so I suspect something changed.  Can anyone think
> of what it is, or point me in the direction of someone who would know.
> 
> It should be noted that Beru's build system is not the standard one you'd get
> from starting with the QML+extension template, for historical reasons.  Don't
> assume that my CMakeLists files have what you expect them to have.
> 
> Thanks,
> Robert
> 
> [1] https://github.com/rschroll/beru
> [2] This one: http://i.stack.imgur.com/MZ5s3.png
> 
> 

I hit that with my project also. Apparently absolute paths no longer work in
.desktop files. This is what I had to do:

-Exec=/usr/bin/qmlscene $@ /usr/share/tipcalc/tipcalc.qml
+Exec=qmlscene $@ tipcalc.qml

Hope that helps,

Marc.