[Qt-interest] qmake: select variables depending in compiler

[Gordon Schumacher]

Christian Döring wrote:
> Matthias Pospiech schrieb:
>   
>> I have a pro file which sets up my project with many libaries.
>> These libaries exist for visual studio 2005, 2008, mingw and soon also 
>> for linux (gcc)
>>
>> These libaries (dll) files are stored in different path, such as
>>
>> project/lib/libaryname//$${COMPILER}/debug
>>
>> where COMPILER has currently the values {mingw, msvc2005, msvc2008, gcc}
>>
>> Now I want to have an automatic selection of these paths depending on 
>> the compiler currently used.
>>
>> How would one achieve this within qmake?
>>
>> Matthias
>>
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> Hello,
>
> You can use QMAKE_CC or QMAKE_CXX in your .pro-File to determnine the
> compiler.
> If you additionally want to distinguish between different versions of
> visual studio you can use $$find(QMAKE_COMPILER_DEFINES, "_MSC_VER")
> which should give you something like win32-msvc2008 or win32-msvc2005
> I hope that helps.
>   

Or you may just use scoping, and use things like:

*-msvc* {
  ...only if we're using a Microsoft compiler...
}
win32 {
  ...only on Windows...
}

Read the Scoping section in the qmake docs, and look in the mkspecs
directory to see what your match glob should be.