How can I use relative paths for "Build Directory" under Qt Creator Mac OS X

dancingbeartech

Hi all,

Have the following issue under Qt Creator Mac OS X 2.0.1 with SDK 4.7.1.

Under the "Projects" tab, for all of the configurations, there's a "Build directory" field. I want the following directory structure under my home directory:

/home
/home/Development
/home/Development/src
/home/Development/shadow

If I put an absolute path in like:

/home/Development/shadow

it works for me. However, if I were to use a relative path like:

../shadow

for a project from /home/Development/src, the build winds up in /Developer/Applications/Qt/shadow

What am I missing here? Is there an environment variable I haven't set yet?

Thanks in advance.

Andrew

diegosarmentero

I think you should work with Qt Resources:
http://doc.qt.nokia.com/4.7/resources.html

and you are not going to have any more problems about absolut or relative paths.
It's something really useful.

goetz

[quote author="diegosarmentero" date="1298046196"]I think you should work with Qt Resources:
http://doc.qt.nokia.com/4.7/resources.html

and you are not going to have any more problems about absolut or relative paths.
It's something really useful.[/quote]

Qt resources are absolutely unrelated to shadow builds.

tobias.hunger

There is a variable for the source directory. You should be able to use that to "anchor" to it and go to some other place relative to it.

Please check the documentation for a list of available variables.

IIRC you need 2.1 for this to work... it is available on our ftp site.

dancingbeartech

Tobias, am I looking for this in the QMake reference, or somewhere else?

Can anyone else point me in the correction direction? Using something like ../shadow works on Windows, but on Mac, it goes to somewhere I don't expect or want.

dancingbeartech

Just to add one thought, this is for the *.pro.user files, not the *.pro files.

tobias.hunger

I was actually referring to the Qt Creator manual:-)

Feel free to file "a bugreport":http://bugreports.qt.nokia.com/ if this works differently on windows and mac.

dancingbeartech

Have it working correctly now. As you suggested previously, I downloaded Qt Creator 2.1 now that it is officially released and it handles this case correctly.

The key is the SOURCEDIR variable. By using this, I can have the relative path

$SOURCEDIR/../shadow

and it works correctly on Mac.