How to add build steps in Qt Creator for every project?

Question

Using Qt Creator (latest released version, "Qt Creator 5.0.3 based on Qt 5.15.2"), the default build steps when creating a new project using meson are wrong.

My project configuration is the following: I have my source code, meson build files in a directory which also contains the build directory named "build".

Here are the default build steps:

Here is what it should be:

Is there a way I can change the default build settings for every project? Can someone explain why Qt Creator doesn't have good build steps by default?

Answer 1

Meson is poorly supported by Qt Creator, and that is why I have so much trouble using it with Qt Creator. What I had to do is pick the latest version (on GitHub) of Qt Creator that supports meson and build it to make it work.