[Qt-creator] qmake and backtick command arguments

[Andrzej Telszewski]

On 21/02/16 11:53, Konstantin Tokarev wrote:
>
>
> 21.02.2016, 13:50, "Andrzej Telszewski" <atelszewski at gmail.com>:
>> On 21/02/16 11:34, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
>>>   On 21/02/16 11:47, Andrzej Telszewski wrote:
>>>>   Hi,
>>>>
>>>>   I'm trying to do something like this in .pro file:
>>>>   INCLUDEPATH += \
>>>>      `php-config --includes`
>>>
>>>   Try the system() function in combination with the "$$" operator (for
>>>   variable expansion):
>>>
>>>      INCLUDEPATH += $$system(php-config --includes)
>>
>> It works!
>>
>> Now I have another problem:
>>
>> The output of php-config --includes is:
>> -I/usr/include/php -I/usr/include/php/main -I/usr/include/php/TSRM
>> -I/usr/include/php/Zend -I/usr/include/php/ext
>> -I/usr/include/php/ext/date/lib
>>
>> And in consequence INCLUDEPATH becomes:
>> -I-I/usr/include/php -I-I/usr/include/php/main -I-I/usr/include/php/TSRM
>> -I-I/usr/include/php/Zend -I-I/usr/include/php/ext
>> -I-I/usr/include/php/ext/date/lib
>>
>> that is, extra "-I" is added by qmake.
>>
>> Is there an easy way to work around it?
>>
>> "php-config" does not seem to have any possibility of tweaking its output.
>
> You need to use QMAKE_CXXFLAGS (or QMAKE_CFLAGS if you build C) instead of INCLUDEPATH.
>

This yields yet another inconvenience. Using QMAKE_CFLAGS allows 
application to compile fine, but header files are not seen by Qt Creator 
and so cannot be nicely navigated.

Any thoughts on that?

-- 
Best regards,
Andrzej Telszewski