Standalone Application Qt

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I have a Qt application that needs a specific folder and some files. This folder is now located inside the project folder. Is there any way to make this folder be "generated" when I use the make command to create the Standalone version of the program.

I was thinking about changing something in my .pro file but could not figure out any solution that way.

The folder contains some .lua code that I need to make the software work properly if the user select some functionalities.

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Apr 12 '16 at 01:27

Possible solution(see http://doc.qt.io/qt-5/qmake-advanced-usage.html):

TEMPLATE = app
TARGET = 
DEPENDPATH += .
INCLUDEPATH += .

# Input
SOURCES += main.cpp

lua_dir.target = .makedir
lua_dir.commands = test -d lua_dir || mkdir lua_dir

QMAKE_EXTRA_TARGETS += lua_dir
PRE_TARGETDEPS += .makedir

You should replace lua_dir.commands = test -d lua_dir || mkdir lua_dir with appropriate to you command, I use bash command intepreter here.

score 0 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 12:31

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One solution that copy these resources to destination folder the binary installed via qmake. Please refer to the link enter link description here

Some answers are out-of-date but inspire enough.

edited May 23 '17 at 12:31

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answered Apr 12 '16 at 01:29

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score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Apr 12 '16 at 04:06

you can change DESTDIR qmake variable to compile binary file straight to specified directory.
you can use INSTALLS:
```
someTarget.path = $$OUT_PWD/MyFolder
someTarget.files = $$PWD/SomeDirToCopy/*
INSTALLS += someTarget
```
this will copy all files from ProjectDirectory/SomeDirToCopy folder to BuildDirecory/MyFolder after you run make install in build directory.

Standalone Application Qt

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