Custom Process Step in Qt Creator Project

MartinCook

Using 5.1.1

Trying to add a command step to the build.

All I want to do is copy the .h files from one directory to another. However, when I add the following command to Custom Process Steps ...

Command: copy
Arguments c:\code\projects\qpgui\qpgui*.h c:\code\projects\include

... the Custom Process Step correctly appears as ...

Custom Process Step: "copy " c:\code\projects\qpgui\qpgui*.h c:\code\projects\include

.. but the build gives me this error ...
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16:49:10: The process "C:\Qt\Qt5.1.1\Tools\mingw48_32\bin\mingw32-make.exe" exited normally.
16:49:10: Starting: "copy " c:\code\projects\qpgui\qpgui*.h c:\code\projects\include
qtcreator_ctrlc_stub: Command line failed: "copy " c:\code\projects\qpgui\qpgui*.h c:\code\projects\include
16:49:10: The process "copy " exited with code -1.
Error while building/deploying project qpgui (kit: Desktop Qt 5.1.1 MinGW 32bit)
When executing step 'Custom Process Step'
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I used absolute paths to be sure I was pointing to the right directories.

What am I missing?

compor

hello,

although i don't use a windows environment, could you try the following?

a] remove the wildcard char from the source and target dirs and select a specific header

b] (if a] fails) also add the absolute path for the 'copy' command

otherwise, if you are using qmake you could add a custom command at the qmake variable
@QMAKE_POST_LINK@

personally, i prefer to associate the 'install' step with also installing headers by adding in my .pro file

@
HDR_DIR = ../include

hdr_install.path = $${HDR_DIR}
hdr_install.files = $${HEADERS}
hdr_install.extra = mkdir -p ${{HDR_DIR}}

INSTALLS += hdr_install
@

so, executing 'make install' also copies my headers.
although, i don't know if you have 'make' available with your setup,
which is the required for the above suggestion.

anyhow, you could also have a look at "qmake variable reference":http://qt-project.org/doc/qt-4.8/qmake-environment-reference.html#customizing