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Passing build option to qbs project

I have a qbs project with some external library dependency. As soon as I don't want to specify this dependency inside project source files, I would rather add it as an argument to console build command.

For example: when using qmake, I can specify additional qmake console arguments, like qmake.exe MyProject.pro MYDEFINE="random text", and in the project file I can use this argument inside .pro files as $$MYDEFINE

How to achieve similar functionality with qbs?

Solution

  • Define a property in the project, for example:

    Project {
     property path myCustomLibPath: "unknown-path"

     Product {
          name: "Awesome Program 3000"

          Depends { name: "cpp" }
          cpp.libraryPaths: [project.myCustomLibPath]

     }
}

    Then set it in the command line args:

    qbs build -f /path/to/project.qbs debug project.myCustomLibPath:/path/to/my/lib

    This even works through qt creator.