Exclude directories from lupdate

[mbohlaender]

Hello together!

Hopefully this is the correct section here.

Is there a way to exclude directories with lupdate? We have a bunch of directories which we don't need to check for translatable strings. At least we want to exclude the "lib/external" directory, because we definetly don't want to translate (or check for translatable strings) in external libraries :-)

Our command:

• lupdate -locations relative -recursive . -extensions php -ts lang/backend_de.ts

Thanks!

[Harism]

This is a long shot as I'm not too familiar with lupdate .

Yet, option -no-recursive could provide you means to skip certain directories.

-no-recursive
       Do not recursively scan the following directories.

Says the lupdate -help .

[mbohlaender]

Mmh, yes I already tried it with:

• lupdate -locations relative -recursive . -no-recursive ./lib/external/ -extensions php -ts lang/backend_de.ts

But it didn't really work...

[DrumM8]

@mbohlaender Did you find any solution? Did it work with the absolute path?

[Pradeep P N]

@mbohlaender
Please try below code in your .pro file

Provide required files in lupdate_only { }

lupdate_only {
SOURCES += // Please provide files which you want translate. 
          qml/ * .qml \
          qml/ * / * .qml \
          qml/ * / * / * .qml \
          qml/ * / * / * / *.qml \
          qml/ * / * / * / *  / *.qml

}

[dimon4eg]

lupdate_only solution does not work for me.
lst-file works for me:
create file with name lst-file and inside specify files/folders with sources e.g.:

sources
includes

then call lupdate

lupdate . @lst-file -no-obsolete -ts myapp.ts