Adding external library into Qt Creator project

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Donotalo picture Donotalo · Apr 5, 2009 · Viewed 221k times · Source

How can I add external library into a project built by Qt Creator RC1 (version 0.9.2)? For example, the win32 function EnumProcesses() requires Psapi.lib to be added in the project to build.

Answer

Ben picture Ben · Apr 25, 2009

The proper way to do this is like this:

LIBS += -L/path/to -lpsapi

This way it will work on all platforms supported by Qt. The idea is that you have to separate the directory from the library name (without the extension and without any 'lib' prefix). Of course, if you are including a Windows specific lib, this really doesn't matter.

In case you want to store your lib files in the project directory, you can reference them with the $$_PRO_FILE_PWD_ variable, e.g.:

LIBS += -L"$$_PRO_FILE_PWD_/3rdparty/libs/" -lpsapi

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