[Qt-interest] QMake equivalent to ./configure --prefix

[Sean Harmer]

Hi,

On Wednesday 03 Feb 2010 16:02:10 Merwin wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I'm developping a console application, with plugins support. I've got a
> main.pro project file with a subdir template. I'm looking for a way to
> specify an 'install directory', that means that all the subdirs projet
> (in fact, plugins) will be installed in this directory.
> 
> For example:
> 
> qmake dir=/home/me/myapp/
> make
> make install
> 
> And make install will install all files in /home/me/myapp.
> And the plugins (which are SUBDIRS project), would install in
> /home/me/myapp/plugins/.
> I didn't found an easy way to do this, is there one?

You need to set the target path for each target somehow and then add the 
target to the INSTALLS variable. For e.g. we use:

target.path        = $$(MAPSROOT)/lib
INSTALLS += target

to make sure that our libs get installed to a prefix specified by the MAPSROOT 
environment variable. We just make sure that this is set to the correct path 
before running qmake.

If you have many subdirs that all need the same partial configuration then put 
the common stuff into a .pri file (project include file) in the parent dir and 
get each subdir's pro file to include it with:

include( ../common-stuff.pri )

Hope this helps,

Sean