[Interest] Problem with qmake in qt5-beta on osx creating a static library

[Sid Deb]

It turns out I was still using the mkspecs from qt 4.6. Updating to the 5.0 ones fixed this problem. Sorry for the noise, and thanks for the info.

Sid


On Sep 13, 2012, at 1:29 AM, Thiago Macieira wrote:

> On quarta-feira, 12 de setembro de 2012 17.49.19, Sid Deb wrote:
>> Hi,
>> I'm porting a graphics app from qt4.6 to qt5.0.beta1 and I've run into a
>> situation where qmake refuses to name my output library correctly. I'm
>> working on OSX 10.6.8.
>> 
>> Here are the relevant items from the .pro file:
>> CONFIG			+= staticlib debug_and_release
>> TEMPLATE		= lib
>> TARGET_EXT	= a
>> TARGET		= libUIComponents-QT
>> 
>> This results in a library called "libUIComponents-QT." and not
>> "libUIComponents-QT.a" as expected, which obviously causes problems when
>> trying to link against it.  I've tried omitting the TARGET_EXT specifier,
>> but I get the same result.  It seems that qmake adds the '.' but not the
>> extension, no matter what options I tried setting.  Renaming the library
>> "fixes" the problem, but is obviously not a viable solution.
>> 
>> This was giving the correct result under qt4 (without the TARGET_EXT
>> specifier).
>> 
>> Is this a bug or has qt5 changed how this works, or is something wrong with
>> my setup here?
> 
> Static building is not working properly right now. In fact, it might not work 
> until Qt 5.1. YMMV.
> 
> Also, please use CONFIG += static   instead of staticlib. The two should be 
> equivalent, but the one I recommend is the official.
> 
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