[Qt-creator] Release/debug mess with VS2003 build

[Eike Ziller]

On Jul 15, 2009, at 4:11 PM, ext Scott Morgan wrote:

> Got the Qt source and built it with VS2003, pointed QtCreator at it  
> and
> stuff builds but there seems to be a mess with release/debug  
> matching in
> the qmake step.
>
> If the .pro file has the following:
>
> debug {
>  LIBS += MyDebug.lib
> }
> release {
>  LIBS += MyRelease.lib
> }
>
> Both libs get included in both debug and release versions of the  
> makefile.
>
> Adding the following to the .pro file to list what config items are
> being set:
>
> message(--------------------------)
> for(val, CONFIG) {
>  message($$val)
> }
>
> Shows that there is a mess of release and debug items set for both
> versions of the build. Currently it seems 'Release' and 'Debug' (note
> the caps) items work correctly, but where are the other, spurious,  
> items
> coming from?
>
> Scott


Try to avoid the "debug" and "release" scopes, because qmake doesn't  
guarantee that they are not defined *both* at the same time.
Instead the scopes "CONFIG(debug, debug|release)" and "CONFIG(release,  
debug|release)" do what you actually want to do. The code above then  
looks

CONFIG(debug, debug|release) {
  LIBS += MyDebug.lib
}
CONFIG(release, debug|release) {
  LIBS += MyRelease.lib
}

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Eike Ziller
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