[Qt-creator] Environment variable setting per platform

[Tobias Hunger]

Hi Petric,

On Fri, Aug 5, 2016 at 8:25 PM, Petric Frank <pfrank at gmx.de> wrote:
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> To be more precise on my actual problem - i had to execute a pre-build step
> (here: cppumaker of libreoffice). The tool executable requres some shared
> libs (*.so in Linux, *.dll in Windows) to be able to run. These are not in
> the search path.
>
> Under Linux i had to set LD_LIBRARY_PATH, under Windows i have to extend the
> PATH variable.
>
> I tried to set LD_LIBRARY_PATH in the qmake file, but it did not work.

I am no qmake expert, sorry.

But I would not expect that kind of machine specific configuration to
be set up by the build system: Any machine that builds the code will
probably need a different LD_LIBRARY_PATH and PATH to be set --
depending on where the stuff is installed on that particular system. I
would have the build system check whether the necessary tools can be
run and complain with a clear error message if they fail.

Then I would ask users to set the system environment properly and be
done with that:-) If you admin all the developer machines doing that
should not be too hard... not much harder than installing all the
required tools in the first place.

Best Regards,
Tobias