Custom Build Process on Windows

[RickF]

I'm trying to write a custom build step that will copy a config file to the application's directory.

I have Enable custom process step checked
Name: Custom Process Step
Command: cmd
Working Directory: $BUILDDIR
Command arguments PostBuild.bat

My .bat file is:

@
copy copy.xml $DESTDIR
echo Copied copy.xml
exit
@

When I build the build process hangs with the output:

The process "C:/Qt/2010.04/mingw/bin/mingw32-make.exe" exited normally.
Starting: "C:/Windows/system32/cmd.exe" PostBuild.bat
Microsoft Windows [Version 6.1.7600]
Copyright (c) 2009 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.

It never exits. Does anyone know what I might be doing wrong?

Thanks

[ludde]

Have you tried running the same thing from a command prompt? If you do, you will notice that exactly the same thing happens - a new command prompt is started and your .bat file is not used at all. The reason is that cmd simply does not work the way you think - to pass a .bat file you have to use the /c command line option. So changing the command arguments to /c PostBuild.bat should do what you want (if PostBuild.bat is placed where cmd expects to find it).

[giesbert]

There is another problem:

you batch file will not work.
You should try out the batch file from a command propt to verify it's usage. $DESTDIR is a qMake and perhaps QtCreator variable, but none for a batch file. Inside batch files, you must use windows syntzax for variables: %VARNAME%

perhaps some of the following pages might help:

• "Win XP Command Line Syntax":http://ss64.com/nt/syntax.html
• "An A-Z Index of the Windows CMD command line":http://ss64.com/nt/
• "wikipedia: Batch File":http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batch_file