#76 Ignore Qt specific files

[Romas]

Qt uses MOC (Meta-Object Compiler) which produce bunch of additional files inside build directory. With default settings cloc ignores most of them, but counts files:
#build_directory#/Makefile
#build_directory#/moc_mainwindow.cpp
#build_directory#/ui_mainwindow.h
The problem is that #build_directory# can be anything the programmer wants. Default value is: "build-#projectname#-#toolchain#-#(Debug|Release)#".
Actual build directory can be extracted from the #projectname#.pro.user file like this: http://regex101.com/r/oC0vJ3

I have attached *.pro.user file for reference.

[Al Danial]

Wow, that's convoluted. I'm not keen to implement this.

Not to leave you empty handed, you could use cloc's --exclude-dir option to avoid counts in these directories. This one liner

perl -n -e 'if (/ProjectExplorer.BuildConfiguration.BuildDirectory/) {m{>(.*?)</value}; push @a, $1}; END {print "cloc --exclude-dir ", join ",", @a}' PW2.pro.user

produces

cloc --exclude-dir /data/romas/bmstu/term/6/modelling/lab/other/lab3/build-PW2-Desktop-Debug,/data/romas/bmstu/term/6/modelling/lab/other/lab3/build-PW2-Desktop

which is the start of an invocation that will skip the contents of the build directories.