lupdate is not producing .ts files for me

[kitfox]

I'm diving into using the translation features for the first time and can't seem to generate the .ts files I need. When I run lupdate, I just get an error message that no .ts file has been specified, and no files are generated. The docs I've read don't say anything about specifying a .ts file. How do I get this to work?

This is my command prompt:

D:\dev\starling2\game\2019\GoldfinchQt>lupdate -verbose GoldfinchQt.pro
Info: creating stash file D:\dev\starling2\game\2019\GoldfinchQt\.qmake.stash
lupdate warning: no TS files specified. Only diagnostics will be produced for 'D:/dev/starling2/game/2019/GoldfinchQt/GoldfinchQt.pro'.

[J.Hilk]

hi @kitfox

there are two ways I know of. The, in my opinion, best way is to specify your translation files inside your *.pro file

TRANSLATIONS = myApp_de.ts \
               ....
               myApp_en.ts

if you don't want to do it this way, than you'll have to specify a file.ts name as argument to the lUpdate program call.
I know this works, but I'm unsure where exactly to place the file-argument. So I can't give you an example for that.