How can I copy a file from my project to the output directory with qmake?
I'm compiling on Linux but in the future I'll compile it on Mac and Windows.
You can use a qmake function for reusability:
# Copies the given files to the destination directory
defineTest(copyToDestdir) {
files = $$1
for(FILE, files) {
DDIR = $$DESTDIR
# Replace slashes in paths with backslashes for Windows
win32:FILE ~= s,/,\\,g
win32:DDIR ~= s,/,\\,g
QMAKE_POST_LINK += $$QMAKE_COPY $$quote($$FILE) $$quote($$DDIR) $$escape_expand(\\n\\t)
}
export(QMAKE_POST_LINK)
}
then use it as follows:
copyToDestdir($$OTHER_FILES) # a variable containing multiple paths
copyToDestdir(run.sh) # a single filename
copyToDestdir(run.sh README) # multiple files