Project structure help/suggestions.

ealione

I am creating a project that I want to structure a little bit differently from the usual default way, mainly out of interest, thus what I will show below might be wrong or not a good idea. In any case this is what I have until now

Poject/
- project.pro
- App/
  - app.pro
- Engine/
  - engine.pro
- Logger/
  - logger.pro
- root.pri

The contents of these files are as follows:

project.pro

include(root.pri)

TEMPLATE = subdirs

SUBDIRS = Logger Engine App

DISTFILES += doc/* mainpage.dox Doxyfile
OTHER_FILES += README.md \
    TODO \
    Copyright \
    Changelog

# build should be last.
CONFIG += ordered
SUBDIRS += build

PACKAGE_VERSION = $$ProjectVersion
PACKAGE_NAME= Project

App.pro, Engine.pro, Logger.pro (Empty for now)

INCLUDEPATH += $$PWD
DEPENDPATH += $$PWD

TEMPLATE = lib

UI_DIR = uics
MOC_DIR = mocs
OBJECTS_DIR = objs

QT +=

CONFIG(debug, debug|release) {
    DEFINES += SUPERVERBOSE
}

HEADERS +=

SOURCES +=

root.pri

exists(user.conf): include(user.conf)

isEmpty(ProjectVersion) {
    ProjectVersion = 1.1
    cache(ProjectVersion, set, ProjectVersion)
}

WARNINGS += -Wall

build.pro

INCLUDEPATH += $$PWD
DEPENDPATH += $$PWD

TEMPLATE = app

SOURCES += main.cpp 

#LIBS += -L../Logger -L../Engine -L../App -llogger -lengine -lapp

TARGET = ../

The idea is that build/ will take care of packaging everything into a final application. All other components, like the logger, will be libraries loaded in the app.

App/ will contain the applications ui, written in qml, and Engine/ all the code that will provide functionality to the ui.

Can someone identify any issues with the approach on general. Suggestions or ideas on improving my structure are always welcomed. Maybe you have your own way of structuring your apps and would care to share it.

EDIT:
TEMPLATE = lib is only generating a .dll file and not a .a file. I am not sure if this is correct or not though. Should I link to that dll directly with something like this:

CONFIG( debug, debug|release ) {
    LIBS += "../dist/debug/Loggerd.dll"
    LIBS += "../dist/debug/Engined.dll"
    DESTDIR += "../dist/debug"
} else {
    LIBS += "../dist/release/Logger.dll"
    LIBS += "../dist/release/Engine.dll"
    DESTDIR += "../dist/release"
}

or use

CONFIG	-= dll
CONFIG	+= shared static

and link to the resulting .lib?

Thanks.

SGaist

Hi,

You don't link to .dll files. If you don't have .lib files generated that means that you didn't do the proper export/import stuff. It's described here