Setting Up a Qbs Project

The Qt Build Suite (Qbs) and the Qbs plugin are still experimental, and therefore, you must first enable the plugin manually. If you build Qt Creator yourself from our Git repository, you also need to fetch the Qbs submodule to get Qbs support.

To use Qbs to build a project, you must create a .qbs file for the project. For more information, see the Qbs Manual.

Enabling the Qbs Plugin

If you use a Qt Creator binary release, you need to enable the plugin by selecting Help > About Plugins > Build Systems > QbsProjectManager and restarting Qt Creator.

To build the Qbs plugin yourself from the Qt Creator git repository:

1. Fetch the Qbs submodule in your Qt Creator git checkout with git submodule update --init.
2. Run qmake on Qt Creator and build Qt Creator again.
3. Enable the Qbs plugin as described above.

Building Applications with Qbs

To build your application with Qbs:

1. Select File > New File or Project > Plain C Project (Qbs Build) or Plain C++ Project (Qbs Build) > Choose, and follow the instructions of the wizard to create a Qbs project.

   

2. Edit the .qbs file for you project. Usually, you must add the Depends item for a Qt application. For examples, see the examples directory in the qbs repository.
3. Click the (Run) button to build, deploy, and run the application.