qmake and 'include' function

canellas

Hi! I have a development directory structure more or less like this:

/
/common
common.pro
/a
a.pro

In 'a.pro' I want to include 'common.pro', and I want the paths referenced in common.pro be relative to 'a' directory.

Does anyone know how to do it?

Thanks!

Gerd

Hi,
just use
include(../common/common.pro)

in a,pro

canellas

Thanks for your answer.

I tried that, but the relative paths in 'common.pro' stay relative to where 'common.pro' is, and not to where 'a.pro' is.

Gerd

Sorry, misunderstood the question..

In that case you can use the qmake-variable

_PRO_FILE_PWD_

using a test with some testfiles like this:

test.pro:

TEMPLATE        = subdirs 
SUBDIRS         += a
SUBDIRS         += common

a/a.pro:

message("pwd is $$_PRO_FILE_PWD_")
include(../common/common.pro)

common/common.pro:

message("pwd in common is $$_PRO_FILE_PWD_")

gives this result:

d:\zw\qmaketest>qmake -r
Reading D:/zw/qmaketest/a/a.pro
Project MESSAGE: pwd is D:/zw/qmaketest/a
Project MESSAGE: pwd in common is D:/zw/qmaketest/a
Project MESSAGE: pwd is D:/zw/qmaketest/a
Project MESSAGE: pwd in common is D:/zw/qmaketest/a
Project MESSAGE: pwd is D:/zw/qmaketest/a
Project MESSAGE: pwd in common is D:/zw/qmaketest/a
Reading D:/zw/qmaketest/common/common.pro
Project MESSAGE: pwd in common is D:/zw/qmaketest/common
Project MESSAGE: pwd in common is D:/zw/qmaketest/common
Project MESSAGE: pwd in common is D:/zw/qmaketest/common

That shou give you a hint
(edit: added some code-tags)

speqtr

Hi,

you can try to:

rename common.pro to common.pri,
include it in your a.pro like this:

!include(common.pri) {
    error("Ooops..! common.pri is missing")
}

inside common.priuse _PRO_FILE_PWD_ variable

In this case, when you include common.pri inside your a.pro, _PRO_FILE_PWD_ variable will point to the a.pro directory.
If you later include common.pri inside b.pro, _PRO_FILE_PWD_ will point to the b.pro directory.
And so on...

You can read more on the qmake variables page.

Hope this helps :)

canellas

it worked using PRO_FILE_PWD variable! Thanks a lot!