[Qt-creator] qmake and backtick command arguments

[Konstantin Tokarev]

21.02.2016, 13:59, "Andrzej Telszewski" <atelszewski at gmail.com>:
> 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?

Is it possible to use pkg-config instead of php-config? In this case you can use pkg-config integration in qmake.

>
> --
> Best regards,
> Andrzej Telszewski

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Regards,
Konstantin