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.
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))
}
}