[Solved] DEPENDPATH += . INCLUDEPATH += . Missing in .pro file

Hareen Laks

Hi,

Currently I'm reading Foundations of Qt Developement by John Thelin.

That book says "The other two variables, DEPENDPATH and INCLUDEPATH, are set to ., so QMake knows that you keep the files of the project in the current directory. The difference between the two is that DEPENDPATH is used by QMake when mapping the dependencies in the project, whereas INCLUDEPATH is passed on to the compiler to tell it where to look for included files."

But I cannot find neither DEPENDPATH nor INCLUDEPATH in my project's .pro file.
@#-------------------------------------------------

Project created by QtCreator 2014-08-15T09:49:02

#-------------------------------------------------

QT += core gui

TARGET = untitled1
TEMPLATE = app

SOURCES += main.cpp
MainWindow.cpp

HEADERS += MainWindow.h

FORMS += MainWindow.ui
@

Are they obsoleted?

Thanks for reading.

dheerendra

These are predefined keywords. They are not required for any simple project like this. Your project works with default settings like current directory etc. e.g if you have kept the header files in different directory, then you can specify
INCLUDEPATH += "/users/haren/include"

Then your compiler looks for this directory when you have your own header files.

Hope this clarifies.

p3c0

Hi,

Follow "this":http://qt-project.org/doc/qt-5/qmake-variable-reference.html link for complete list of qmake variables.

Hareen Laks

Dheerendra, p3c0,

Thank you for your help. I understood the reason.