QMake - how to copy a file to the output
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($$OTHER_FILES) # a variable containing multiple paths
copyToDestdir(run.sh) # a single filename
copyToDestdir(run.sh README) # multiple files
Here's an example from one of our projects. It shows how to copy files to the DESTDIR
for Windows and Linux.
linux-g++{
#...
EXTRA_BINFILES += \
$${THIRDPARTY_PATH}/gstreamer-0.10/linux/plugins/libgstrtp.so \
$${THIRDPARTY_PATH}/gstreamer-0.10/linux/plugins/libgstvideo4linux2.so
for(FILE,EXTRA_BINFILES){
QMAKE_POST_LINK += $$quote(cp $${FILE} $${DESTDIR}$$escape_expand(\n\t))
}
}
win32 {
#...
EXTRA_BINFILES += \
$${THIRDPARTY_PATH}/glib-2.0/win32/bin/libglib-2.0.dll \
$${THIRDPARTY_PATH}/glib-2.0/win32/bin/libgmodule-2.0.dll
EXTRA_BINFILES_WIN = $${EXTRA_BINFILES}
EXTRA_BINFILES_WIN ~= s,/,\\,g
DESTDIR_WIN = $${DESTDIR}
DESTDIR_WIN ~= s,/,\\,g
for(FILE,EXTRA_BINFILES_WIN){
QMAKE_POST_LINK +=$$quote(cmd /c copy /y $${FILE} $${DESTDIR_WIN}$$escape_expand(\n\t))
}
}