iOS subdirs project issues

DRoscoe

Consider the following tap_display.pro file

CONFIG += c++11
TEMPLATE = subdirs

SUBDIRS += \
    aop_logger \
    aop_xml \
    aop_serial \
    aop_util \
    aop_measure \
    MoreMath \
    MathUtilities \
    DataCollection \
    DebugLogger \
    BufferedSharedMemory \
    AvionicsBus \
    AircraftDataModel \
    WindModel \
    TableLookups \
    configuration \
    AtosUtils \
    dna \
    aop_data \
    aop_comm \
    tap_data \
    tap_messaging \
    RouteContainer \
    arinc_io_adapter \
    aop_interface \
    tap_display_app

aop_comm.depends = dna
aop_data.depends = WindModel TableLookups
aop_interface.depends = aop_comm
aop_xml.depends = aop_logger
aop_serial.depends = aop_xml
dna.depends = configuration
tap_display_app.depends = tap_messaging aop_interface
tap_messaging.depends = tap_data dna aop_comm

The application is in the tap_display_app subdir at the very bottom of the list. When I run qmake on this file to generate my xcode project files, I have to use

qmake -spec macx-xcode -recursive

It generates a bunch of warnings saying:

WARNING: QMAKESPEC does not support multiple BUILDS

The bigger problem is that in the resulting Xcode project file, the top-level project which is the SUBDIRS project "tap_display" has no targets. I have to explicitly set the target by clicking the tap_display_app project and then the tap_display_app target in Xcode.

Is there a better way to do this? I want to be able to run qmake, load the xcode project and pretty much click "build". I know its not as simple as this because there are other settings that need to be set, but selecting the project and target shouldn't be one of them (IMO).

SGaist

Hi,

That might be iOS specific, can you check if you get the same when building for macOS ?

DRoscoe

@SGaist The behavior is the same regardless of the target platform. If build it in Qt Creator its fine, but that's not a viable solution for iOS apps. I haven't tried using qmake to generate my Linux make files or MSVC project files to see if those behave any better.