Qt VS Tools Always building stuff for Release build

Perdrix

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

jsulm

@Perdrix Please mark thread as solved

VRonin

windeployqt doesn't have a concept of "changes", it is just run everytime

Perdrix

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

Perdrix

Problem solved Self inflicted problem with custom build step

jsulm

@Perdrix Please mark thread as solved