Using 'staticlib' and 'lib_bundle' together

Uncle_Masta

On Mac or iOS, with Qt 5.9.3 or Qt 5.10, in my .pro, I have:
CONFIG += lib_bundle

And when I use:
CONFIG += shared

This will result in a .framework bundle, but
CONFIG += staticlib
or
CONFIG += static

This will only build the lib$$TARGET.a, and not a contained .framework. Is there another variable or tweak to get this to work?

SGaist

Hi,

AFAIK, there’s no concept of static framework. It’s either one or the other.

Uncle_Masta

@SGaist You could only make static frameworks under iOS until fairly recently.

Either way, at the end, it's headers and the library under one directory, which isn't hard to do, but I would just rather use the existing system to do that.

Uncle_Masta

Well, I couldn't figure out any magic incantation, so I just added the following:

            QMAKE_POST_LINK += mkdir -p $${TARGET}.framework/Headers && \
                $$QMAKE_COPY $$PWD/*.h $${TARGET}.framework/Headers && \
                $$QMAKE_COPY $$OUT_PWD/lib$${TARGET}.a $${TARGET}.framework/$${TARGET} && \
                $$QMAKE_RANLIB -s $${TARGET}.framework/$${TARGET}

Obviously, this only works on unix-like systems, and not versioned frameworks. But, for static linking, I think this is sufficient.

SGaist

Thanks for the feedback