[Interest] qmake with release config is called for debug build

[Jérôme Godbout]

The way you wrote it, it will only copy the file when parsing the .pro/.pri files, you need to make a target and add it to the build sequence.

Here's the doc example:
mytarget.target = .buildfile
mytarget.commands = touch $$mytarget.target
mytarget.depends = mytarget2

mytarget2.commands = @echo Building $$mytarget.target
QMAKE_EXTRA_TARGETS += mytarget mytarget2

http://doc.qt.io/qt-5/qmake-advanced-usage.html

I still wonder why it's not as simple as the MSBuild target system (I not a lover of MSBuild, but that part was clear and simple) where QMake make it super unfriendly.


-----Original Message-----
From: Interest <interest-bounces+godboutj=amotus.ca at qt-project.org> On Behalf Of Alexander Dyagilev
Sent: November 10, 2018 3:28 AM
To: interest at qt-project.org
Subject: [Interest] qmake with release config is called for debug build

Hello,

I'm using the following .pri file:

include(macros.pri)
win32:CONFIG(release, debug|release) {
   VC_RUNTIME_FOLDER="c:/Program Files (x86)/Microsoft Visual Studio 14.0/VC/redist/x64/Microsoft.VC140.CRT"
   copyFilesToDestdir($$VC_RUNTIME_FOLDER, "msvcp140.dll") }

It's supposed to copy msvcp140.dll to build folder for Release configuration (so it will be included into the installer then).

I do not need this msvcp140.dll to be copied to my Debug folder when I'm working on the project. But it does copy it.

Steps:
1) Remove file
2) Run qmake on project (active configuration is Debug).

Result: file is copied.

Can anything be done here except the using of QMAKE_POST_LINK here instead? Why is CONFIG(release, debug|release) "not working" here?

Some details below:

copyFilesToDestdir is defined in macros.pri:

defineTest(copyFilesToDestdir) {
     pathSrc = $$1
     files = $$2
     folderDst = $$DESTDIR
     subfolder = $$3
     !isEmpty(subfolder) {
         folderDst=$$folderDst/$$subfolder
     }

     DEST = $$shell_path($$OUT_PWD/$$folderDst)

     for(filename, files) {
         FILE = $$shell_path($$pathSrc/$$filename)
         system($$QMAKE_COPY $$shell_quote($$FILE) $$shell_quote($$DEST))
     }
}

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