How to place header and ui file in different folders using autouic in cmake

Question

According to the documentation, regarding autouic:

If a preprocessor #include directive is found which matches ui_.h, and a .ui file exists, then uic

Answer 1

Issue mentioned in this answer is now resolved.

This worked in CMake v3.9.0-rc6:

set(CMAKE_AUTOUIC_SEARCH_PATHS your/folder/here)

See documentation of AUTOUIC_SEARCH_PATHS.

Answer 2

Update

A search path, CMAKE_AUTOUIC_SEARCH_PATHS, has been added to CMake version 3.9.

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After further investigation, it seems like it's not possible to do. There is an open issue in their tracking system, but it is so far not implemented:

Add Search path for AUTOUIC