[QBS] Autotest runner and Qt plugin path

[Ch'Gans]

On 19 June 2016 at 19:38, Jake Petroules <Jake.Petroules at qt.io> wrote:
> AutotestRunner (https://doc.qt.io/qbs/autotestrunner-item.html) provides an
> environment property that you can use to control the environment that your
> tests are run with. Create an item derived from AutotestRunner, like so:
>
> AutotestRunner {
>     Depends { name: "Qt.core" }
>     environment: base.concat(["QT_PLUGIN_PATH=" + Qt.core.pluginPath])
> }

Thanks a lot Jake, somehow I missed that one!

>
> ...and then use that in place of AutotestRunner. In fact, I'd argue that we
> should provide this by default in qbs as "QtAutotestRunner", so maybe look
> for that in a future release. :)

Sounds like a good idea, if this is a typical workaround people have to do.

Thanks again,
Chris

>
> Good luck!
>
> On Jun 19, 2016, at 12:23 AM, Ch'Gans <chgans at gna.org> wrote:
>
> Hi there,
>
> I'm using the Autorunner for my project to run my automated unit tests.
> I am using multi QBS profile  (Qt version/toolchains) with no default
> profile.
>
> When using QtCreator on my dev machine to run my autotests everything
> is fine, when using qbs command line within my CI system the tests
> fail because of the app being unable unable to find the required Qt
> Plugins.
> My command looks like: qbs build -p autotest-runner profile:qt57-lnxgcc53_64
>
> One way to solve this on CI is to export QT_QPA_PLATFORM_PLUGIN_PATH
> in the shell before running Qbs, something I don't want to do since
> the plugin path depends on the profile and i want to use a clean and
> predictable shell env. (Note: exporting QTDIR didn't do the trick)
>
> I have tried to use 'qbs.setupBuildEnvironment: {
> Environment.putEnv('QT_QPA_PLATFORM_PLUGIN_PATH', Qt.core.pluginPath);
> }' inside my product definition, but then Qbs complains that it cannot
> find the variable 'Qt'.
>
> Ideally i would like a simple solution that work out of the box. I
> don't want to go with qt.conf or the likes.
>
> So my question is: What is the best way to build/setup my
> autotest-runner environment so that it can load Qt plugins correctly?
>
> Notes:
> * CI doesn't have an XServer runniing, so i'm trying to use the
> 'offscreen' platform plugin, anyway this is not the source of my
> problem, since by default the testapp try to load xcb and it doesn't
> work for the reason explained above
> * my test application's rpath contains
> "/path/to/qt/unifed/5.X/gcc_64/lib" where 5.X correspond to the Qt
> version defined for the Qbs profile in use.
> * For now I'm only dealing with Linux, but later I would like to exec
> my tests on Windows, and eventually on MacOSX too.
>
> Thanks in advance for any information that could shed some light on
> how to achieve that 'the right way' (tm) with Qbs,
> Chris
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