qt_am_add_systemui_wrapper

Synopsis

qt_am_add_systemui_wrapper(
    target
    [EXECUTABLE appman-executable]
    [MAIN_QML_FILE main.qml]
    [CONFIG_YAML config.yaml ...]
    [EXTRA_ARGS ...]
    [EXTRA_FILES ...]
    [EXTRA_FILES_GLOB ...]
    [INSTALL_DIR install-dir]
)

If versionless commands are disabled, use qt6_am_add_systemui_wrapper() instead. It supports the same set of arguments as this command.

Description

Generates a .bat (Windows) or .sh (macOS, Linux) wrapper in the build directory to easily run your QML based System UI referenced by target on the desktop or within Qt Creator. It will also automatically copy the required files from the source to the build directory: these are the MAIN_QML_FILE, any CONFIG_YAML files as well as all EXTRA_FILES.

Any directory in EXTRA_FILES will be recursively copied. By default the file types are limited to *.qml *.js qmldir *.json *.yaml *.png *.jpg *.svg, but you can supply a custom glob pattern via EXTRA_FILES_GLOB (see CMake's file(GLOB) command for details).

If you also want this command to automatically generate installation rules for all files, you can specify the destination directory via INSTALL_DIR. By default, no installation rule is created.

If you want to use a custom build of the application manager, you can do that by using EXECUTABLE. Otherwise, the appman binary of the current Qt build will be used.

All EXTRA_ARGS will be appended to the command line when running the EXECUTABLE from the wrapper script.

For very simple setups, specifying just the MAIN_QML_FILE is enough. If you already have an am-config.yaml, you can reference that via CONFIG_YAML. In case your main.qml is already set in the YAML config file, you do not need to specify it here again.

Examples

Here is a snippet from the applicationmanager/minidesk example, showing how this function is used there:

qt6_am_add_systemui_wrapper(minidesk
    INSTALL_DIR "${INSTALL_EXAMPLEDIR}"
    CONFIG_YAML am-config.yaml
    EXTRA_FILES apps system-ui
    EXTRA_ARGS --verbose
)