qmake install error detection on Windows

VRonin

Hi Guys, I'm facing an annoying deployment problem when using qmake

Take this example .pro file:

target.path = C:/temp
baseLibs.path = C:/temp
baseLibs.files = "SomeConfigFile.xml"

INSTALLS += baseLibs target

and that the target is MyApp.exe

Now let's imagine I call nmake install while I have C:/temp/MyApp.exe open. The result is that the target copy will fail but, since the xml file gets copied successfully make terminates with a success (errorlevel is 0).
Is there any way I can detect that error?
I already tried inverting the arguments to INSTALLS but it doesn't solve my problem

SGaist

Hi,

Since this is going to be a Windows specific issue, did you check the content of the Makefile regarding the install step ?

VRonin

Yes, not much there:

INSTALL_FILE    = copy /y
install_target: first FORCE
	@if not exist $(INSTALL_ROOT)C:\temp mkdir $(INSTALL_ROOT)C:\temp & if not exist $(INSTALL_ROOT)C:\temp exit 1
	-$(INSTALL_FILE) $(DESTDIR_TARGET) $(INSTALL_ROOT)C:\temp\$(TARGET)

install_baseLibs: first FORCE
	@if not exist $(INSTALL_ROOT)C:\temp mkdir $(INSTALL_ROOT)C:\temp & if not exist $(INSTALL_ROOT)C:\temp exit 1
	-$(INSTALL_FILE) SomeConfigFile.xml $(INSTALL_ROOT)C:\temp

Ideal scenario would be that I can check if any of those copy /y failed.

SGaist

What if you add the /v parameter ?

kshegunov

Just a wild guess, but what if you add dependency of the one target to the other?
Something like:

target.path = C:/temp
baseLibs.path = C:/temp
baseLibs.files = "SomeConfigFile.xml"

target.depends = baseLibs

VRonin

@kshegunov said in qmake install error detection on Windows:

target.depends = baseLibs

This was a very promising idea but unfortunately it looks like .depends does not work with other INSTALLS tagets