How to reference generated files in a QRC file?

agarny

Hi,

I was wondering whether someone would know how to 'properly' reference files that get automatically generated at build time?

What I mean is that I, for example, have some language files (.qm files) that get generated and that I want to be able to reference in a QRC file.

Right now, such a QRC file would look like:

<RCC>
    <qresource prefix="/">
        ...
        <file alias="my_qm_file">build/my_qm_file.qm</file>
        ...
    </qresource>
</RCC>

This particular file would sit in the root folder of my Qt project, project that would effectively be built (using CMake) in the build folder, hence I currently reference build in my QRC file.

However, a colleague of mine needs to build several versions of my project and would therefore like to be able to build my project in say my_build, my_other_build, etc.

So, when it comes to my QRC file, how can I make sure that the build system does indeed look for my_build/my_qm_file.qm, my_other_build/my_qm_file.qm, etc. and not always build/my_qm_file.qm?

Cheers, Alan.

agarny

Ok, my colleague suggested using CMake's CONFIGURE_FILE and it's indeed working fine that way.