Qt VS Tools Always building stuff for Release build
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Scenario
- Select release build
- Run build to completion
- Select Debug/Start Debugging or Debug/Start Without Debugging
Before running the executable VS Tools (or MSBuild) does a rebuild of the translation files
Even though the project has already built to completion including the above stuff.
I've checked the vcxproj file by hand for differences between the Debug|x64 and Release|x64 sections.
The only difference is that I have a post build event that runs lrelease twice in the Release builds, once to put the Qt dependencies into the build directory and once to place them into the Installers\RunTIme64 directory.:
call $(QTDIR)\bin\qtenv2.bat $(QTDIR)\bin\windeployqt $(TargetPath) $(QTDIR)\bin\windeployqt --dir $(SolutionDir)Installers\RunTime64 $(TargetPath)Looking around the directory tree the only other difference I found is that the qtvars...props file locations are inconsistent:
D:\Users\amonra\Documents\GitHub\DSS>dir qtvars*.props /s Volume in drive D is Data Volume Serial Number is 2892-0083 Directory of D:\Users\amonra\Documents\GitHub\DSS\DeepSkyStacker\Debug\qmake 04/05/2020 03:34 1,655 qtvars_Win32_Debug.props 1 File(s) 1,655 bytes Directory of D:\Users\amonra\Documents\GitHub\DSS\DeepSkyStacker\Release\qmake 04/05/2020 03:34 1,672 qtvars_Win32_Release.props 1 File(s) 1,672 bytes Directory of D:\Users\amonra\Documents\GitHub\DSS\DeepSkyStacker\x64\Debug\qmake 08/06/2020 11:26 3,976 qtvars_x64_Debug.props 1 File(s) 3,976 bytes Directory of D:\Users\amonra\Documents\GitHub\DSS\DeepSkyStacker\x64\Release\qmake 08/06/2020 16:39 3,993 qtvars_x64_Release.props 1 File(s) 3,993 bytes -
That's not the problem. It is run as part of the build for the debug build, but not every time I invoke the executable, but for the release build, every time I attempt to run the executable it re-runs all the stuff you see above - that isn't right. I removed the post build step for windeployqt and that didn't change the behaviour.
This is driving me nuts
David
