I’m following the guide to configure my IDE, but the “configure project” button on step 4 is grayed out for me, as shown here:
I am running Ubuntu 16.04. How do I get it to allow me to configure the project so I can continue with setting up my IDE?
Did you run through the quick start link on that page?
I did and have the same issue. The problem is, that QtCreator does not have any kit preconfigured that could build the project and thus has nothing that could be configured.
Somewhere (in the official wiki I think) I also stumbled upon a YouTube link that explains how to set up a kit in QtCreator for building the project from Qt. Sadly I didn’t click it at the time. Does anybody still have that link?
I had the same problem and found out what was wrong: Qt Creator wants to have a Qt dev-environment installed in order to configure/support C++ projects.
On Ubuntu 17.10 I had to additionally install the packages qtbase5-dev and qtdeclarative5-dev and their dependencies and then restart Qt Creator to make things work.
For your convenience:
sudo apt-get install qtbase5-dev qtdeclarative5-dev