[QBS] share functionnality between projects

[olivier musse]

Hi,

What is the best way to share source files and functionality among 
different projects.
1) imaging I have some source files I want to share among multiple 
projects. What is the best way to include these files using QBS?
With Qmake we use to do something like that
common_source.pri :
HEADERS+=$${PWD}/commonsource.h
SOURCES+=$${PWD}/commonsource.cpp
INCLUDEPATH+=$${PWD}
and in the main projet
mainproject.pri:
.....
include(Common/common_source.pri)
.....

So that in one line in all projects we share the same source code

In QBS I succeed to do that but using static library
common_source.qbs
Product {
     type: "staticlibrary"
     name:"common_source"
     files:["commonsource.h","commonsource.cpp"]
     Depends { name: "Qt" ; submodules: ["core"] }
     Depends { name: "cpp" }
     Export{
         cpp.includePaths: "."
     }
}
mainproject.qbs:
Project{
     references:[Common/common_source.qbs]

     Application {
         ......
         Depends { name : "common_source"}
....
}
My questions :
- does what I have done is a good solution ?
- is there any other solution by just including source file (like with 
qmake) and not creating a static library?


2) How to share functionality between projects.
  As an example, imagine I want to automatically generate a file 
according to project properties
                 Project {
propertystringversion:"1.3.5"
                 ......

         Transformer  {

             Artifact  {

                 fileName:  "output_file.txt"

             }

             prepare:  {

                 var  cmd  =  new  JavaScriptCommand();

                 cmd.description  =  "Generating  file  '"  +  output.fileName  +  "'";

                 cmd.sourceCode  =  function()  {

                     var  content  =  "product  version  "+project.version;

                     var  file  =  new  TextFile(output.fileName,  TextFile.WriteOnly);

                     file.write(content);

                     file.close();

                 }

                 return  cmd;

             }

         }
	.....
	}

I would like the transformer to be share among many projects so that I 
only need to include in the project file a qbs file only containing this 
transformer.
What is the best solution to do that ?



Many thanks in advance for help.

Regards





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