qmake SUBDIRS project dependencies are buggy with MSVC project generator

[Violet Giraffe]

I hit this error every now and then in various projects. The error is that some dependencies are honored in a SUBDIRS project, and others are not.

Here's my .pro file:

TEMPLATE = subdirs

SUBDIRS += qtutils text_encoding_detector file_commander_core autoupdater imageviewerplugin textviewerplugin qt_app cpputils

cpputils.subdir = cpputils

qtutils.subdir = qtutils
qtutils.depends = cpputils

autoupdater.file = github-releases-autoupdater/autoupdater-for-github.pro
autoupdater.depends = cpputils

file_commander_core.subdir = file-commander-core
file_commander_core.depends = qtutils

imageviewerplugin.subdir = plugins/viewer/imageviewer
imageviewerplugin.depends = file_commander_core

textviewerplugin.subdir = plugins/viewer/textviewer
textviewerplugin.depends = file_commander_core text_encoding_detector

text_encoding_detector.subdir = text-encoding-detector/text-encoding-detector
text_encoding_detector.depends = cpputils

qt_app.subdir  = qt-app
qt_app.depends = file_commander_core qtutils imageviewerplugin textviewerplugin autoupdater

Note the qt_app dependencies.
And here's what dependencies it actually generates: http://i.imgur.com/RqnJGIQ.jpg

Is there a workaround for this issue?

[Violet Giraffe]

Bump for this quite annoying issue. Has no one had a similar problem? I'd expect to see quite a few Visual Studio users on this forum.