Distribute Library

Rexona for men

And another question, even if my other thread hasn't got any replies yet =S

It's fairly easy to change the place where an executable or lib file being built should be placed. However, for a lib file to be useful I need also the corresponding C++ header files, which are located in my project directory.
Is there a way to command QtCreator to copy all or only some marked header files into a differenct folder where also the lib file might reside?

SGaist

Hi,

Are you thinking about using this lib in another sub-project in the same project ? Or when you're done building you are going to install it ?

Rexona for men

No, it's not the same project.

All I want to do is bundle the lib and header files together into one directory, possible divided into include and lib sub-directories.

SGaist

In that case you should take a look at the INSTALLS variable in qmake's variable reference documentation, it should provide you what you want.

Rexona for men

Hm, INSTALLS seems they way to go, if I understood it correctly.
I tried the following, but it doesn't work:

@distHeaders.path = $$PWD/../../dist/include/
distHeaders.files = $$HEADERS

debug:target.path = $$PWD/../../dist/debug/
release:target.path = $$PWD/../../dist/release/

INSTALLS += distHeaders
INSTALLS += target@

Rexona for men

Ok, I tried some minimal example:

@QT -= core gui

TARGET = TestLib
TEMPLATE = lib
CONFIG += staticlib

SOURCES += testlib.cpp

HEADERS += testlib.h

target.path = $$PWD/../dist
INSTALLS += target

test.path = $$PWD/../dist
test.files = testLib.h
INSTALLS += test@

Wasn't succesful though.
So I tought about using make manually, actually I'm not sure whether QtCreator supports installing at all.
Make however complained about some missing seperators, the buggy lines look like this:

@{..\TestLib}.cxx{debug}.obj::
$(CXX) -c $(CXXFLAGS) $(INCPATH) -Fodebug\ @<<
$<
<<@

I changed it to this:

@{..\TestLib}.cxx{debug}.obj::
$(CXX) -c $(CXXFLAGS) $(INCPATH) -Fodebug\ @<<
$<
<<@

E: some whitespaces were magically removed.., just imagine the two inner lines with four spaces in front =D

and make install actually worked, the files were copied.
But now, buidling the library in QtCreator doesn't work anymore, it tells that testlib.obj cannot be open.
Removing the "" or running qmake from QtCreator fixes this, but now the makefile is buggy again, so installing doesn't work.

Whatsoever, did I something wrong or is this a bug?

SGaist

Did you call make install ?

Rexona for men

Yes, from the console.

As described in my post above, I had to "fix" the makefile to make it work.

SGaist

Sorry I misread your last post.

Then there might be a bug in the Makefile generator. Did you check the "bug report system":http://bugreports.qt-project.org to see whether it's a know issue ?

What OS are you on ? I'll try to reproduce it

Rexona for men

My OS is Windows Vista, though I got Ubuntu on this laptop, too. Currently I'm not able to pass the project to Ubuntu, but when I'm at home, I'll try.

Qt version is 5.1.1, QtCreator 2.8.1

I found also this:
https://bugreports.qt-project.org/browse/QTBUG-26455
I'm not sure wheter it's somehow related or not.

SGaist

Might be, I'll try on OS X when I have some time later

Rexona for men

Tested the make install command on Ubuntu with success, so it seems some windows thing.