[Interest] TEMPLATE=lib creating executable config for Visual Studio project files

[Thiago Macieira]

On sábado, 12 de novembro de 2016 19:14:37 PST Bob Hood wrote:
> QMAKE isn't behaving the way I'm expecting.  I've tried 4.8.6, 5.4.2 and
> 5.6.2, and this bare-bones QMAKE .pro file keeps generating Visual Studio
> project files (.vcproj and .vcxproj) that have an "Application"
> configuration with an ".exe" extension when I run "qmake -t vcapp":

The problem is in your explanation above. Specifically in the "app" part of 
"-t vcapp"

You asked qmake to change the TEMPLATE to "vcapp". So of course it created an 
application. If you wanted a library, you should have used -t vclib.

Or, better yet, qmake -tp vc

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