trying to build standalone app

aha_1980

Just to add one important piece for dynamic linking on Windows, which was not explicited state before, I think:

The *.lib file is needed at link time, it does not need to be deployed with the application
The *.dll file is needed at run time, it needs to be deployed

koahnig

@aha_1980 said in trying to build standalone app:

Hi @mzimmers ,

Just to add one important piece for dynamic linking on Windows, which was not explicited state before, I think:

The .lib file is needed at link time, it does not need to be deployed with the application

The *.dll file is neede at run time, it needs to be deployed

@koahnig said in trying to build standalone app:

@mzimmers
For windows, either you have one lib or you have a lib and a dll. If you got both you need the lib for liniking and the dll for execution.

I acknowledge, a bit hidden ;)

mzimmers

Still fooling around with this...I borrowed the code below from somewhere:

myown_installs.files = "C:/Program Files (x86)/Expat 2.2.5/Bin/libexpat.lib" \
	"C:/Program Files (x86)/Expat 2.2.5/Bin/libexpat.dll"
myown_installs.path = $$OUT_PWD/release

Which works fine for my builds to the /release subdirectory, but not for debugs. Is there some clever way to conditionalize this in my project file?

SGaist

Hi,

Are you trying to make a standalone debug application ?

mzimmers

Hi - no, but when I try to run the debugger, it crashes because these files aren't in the build directory.

SGaist

Ok, I see. Then use

CONFIG(debug, debug|release){
    # Debug specific stuff
} else {
    # Release specific stuff
}

mzimmers

I get a very unexpected error from this:

Any idea what I'm doing wrong?

SGaist

You have a } just after release.

mzimmers

Oh, brother...I'd downvote myself for that if I could.

It works fine now...thanks, SGaist.

SGaist

No worries, things like that happen ;)