iOS builds ignoring PRE_TARGETDEPS and QMAKE_EXTRA_TARGETS

mooglus

I need to compile another team's c code as a library. I have this working for Windows, Mac and Android, but my iOS build seems to ignore the PRE_TARGETDEPS variable. Essentially I have the following in my .pro file, but the mydep.commands = line never executes, even if I change it to mydep.commands = echo Hello.

ios {
 QMAKE_EXTRA_TARGETS += mydep
 PRE_TARGETDEPS += mydep
 mydep.commands = make myioslib -C $$PWD/libs/mylib

 HEADERS += $$PWD/libs/mylib/libmylib.h
 LIBS += -L$$PWD/libs/mylib/ -lmylib
}

LIBS += gets seen, because the build then fails during linking

I'm using Qt 5.12.1

Is there anything special I need to do for iOS?

Thanks for any help

mooglus

Current workaround is...

ios {
  system("make myioslib -C $$PWD/libs/mylib")
  HEADERS += $$PWD/libs/mylib/libmylib.h
  LIBS += -L$$PWD/libs/mylib/ -lmylib
}