How to specify TARGET full path in QMAKE_POST_LINK?

alik_co

To run post-processing tool with QMAKE_POST_LINK, I need to specify full path to the target file. The best I can do so far is

QMAKE_POST_LINK = Post-Process-Tool "$${DESTDIR}/$${TARGET}.exe"

but I'm looking for generalized solution (output file can have different extensions)
Thanks in advance,

Paul Colby

Not sure if this is the best solution, but it might be enough for you:

QMAKE_POST_LINK = Post-Process-Tool $$shell_quote($${DESTDIR}/$${TARGET}$$join(TARGET_EXT,,.))

Here I've used $$join so that the . separator only appears if the file extension is non-empty.

Also $$shell_quote may or may not be necessary if the path contains spaces, etc.

Cheers.

alik_co

Unfortunately the above solution didn't work for me, $${TARGET_EXT} appears empty.

BTW, the entire concept of building full path to the output file "by hand" appears to be limited. For instance, with TARGET=MyModule and TEMPLATE=lib, the output file is MyModule.dll on Windows but libMyModule.so.1.0.0 on Linux, so simple concatenation just doesn't work.

It has to be a better way to pickup complete full path to the target file. QMAKE_RESOLVED_TARGET from mkspecs/features/resolve_target.prf seems to be a good candidate, but I'm failing to extract its value: it appears empty when I try to use it in QMAKE_POST_LINK.

Qt community, please advise. Inability to specify arguments for post link step becomes a (very unexpected) shortcoming of qmake system and blocks our entire project.