How to make any file the target of a pro file?

Marco Nilsson

I am invoking autotools (autogen.sh, configure, make) to build a third party library. This works just fine but now I want the path to the built library to become the target of my pro file. That is, I want qmake to treat is as the file produced by the pro file, copy it to the output folder after being built and remove it if I invoke make clean. Is that possible?

sierdzio

Not entirely sure if it's possible, but maybe this document will help https://doc.qt.io/qt-5/qmake-advanced-usage.html#installing-files

Marco Nilsson

I ended up doing it manually. Not as elegant as a theoretical PROVIDES = $${OBJECTS_DIR}/src/.libs/libwolfssl.a but it will do for now.

TEMPLATE = aux

autoreconf.target = $${PATH}/configure
autoreconf.commands = cd $${PATH} ; autoreconf -fi
autoreconf.depends =

# Configure
OPTS = --prefix=$${DESTDIR}

configure.target = $${OBJECTS_DIR}/Makefile
configure.commands = cd $${OBJECTS_DIR} ; $${PATH}/configure $${OPTS}
configure.depends = autoreconf

build.target = $${OBJECTS_DIR}/src/.libs/libwolfssl.a
build.commands = cd $${OBJECTS_DIR} ; make
build.depends = configure

install.target = $${DESTDIR}/lib/libwolfssl.a
install.commands = cd $${OBJECTS_DIR} ; make install
install.depends = build

uninstall.commands = cd $${OBJECTS_DIR} ; make uninstall ; $${QMAKE_DEL_FILE} Makefile
clean.depends += uninstall

QMAKE_EXTRA_TARGETS += autoreconf configure build install uninstall clean
PRE_TARGETDEPS += $${DESTDIR}/lib/libwolfssl.a

Pablo J. Rogina

@Marco-Nilsson if you consider your issue solved, please don't forget to mark your post as such. Thanks.