Marbledata for out of tree builds

[Lubomir I. Ivanov]

On 18 March 2014 18:17, Lubomir I. Ivanov <neolit123 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 18 March 2014 17:51, Anton Lundin <glance at acc.umu.se> wrote:
>> Nowadays when i testbuild things for Qt4 and Qt5 ive started to build
>> out of tree to make it easy to compare results.
>>
>> I'm not sure if creating a symlink is the best option, but it works for
>> our main build environments so I'm sending this one out. If someone have
>> a better idea how to solve it in a windows compatible way...
>>
>
> on windows when i build a have marbledata copied in ./debug/ where the
> binary goes and it runs fine without a symlink.
> also when you, for example, create a desktop shortcut to
> subsurface.exe, marble will still look for marbledata relative to the
> location of subsurface.exe, so this works fine as well.
>
> while 'ln' is supposed to work from msys, i would suggest a:
>
> !win32 {
> +marbledata.commands += $(CHK_DIR_EXISTS) $$OUT_PWD/marbledata || ln
> -s $$PWD/marbledata $$OUT_PWD/marbledata
> +all.depends += marbledata
> +QMAKE_EXTRA_TARGETS += marbledata
> +
> }

same applies to XSLT, i manually copy ./xslt to ./debug/xslt
i guess this can be looked into at some point - e.g. copy marbledata
and xslt to where the .exe is built...

lubomir
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