How to install universal binary artifacts in qbs?

Question

There is my qbs project:

Project {
    StaticLibrary {
        name: "targetLib"
        files: "main.cpp"

        bundle.isBundle: false

        multiplexByQbsProperties: "architectures"
        aggregate: true

        Group {
            fileTagsFilter: "bundle.content"
            qbs.install: true
            qbs.installSourceBase: buildDirectory
        }

        Depends { name: "nawesome" }
        Depends { name: "cpp" }
    }
}

On build I pass profile with set property cpp.architectures: ["arm64", "x86_64"].

As I understand multiplexing works in this way: one builds per every architecture and another one for aggregate to build universal binary. Aggregate set to its artifact tag "bundle.content" but it doesn't install.

I don't need non-universal binaries installed, so I need some way to eliminate them. Right now the only way I've found is:

        Group {
            condition: type.contains("bundle.content")
            fileTagsFilter: "staticlibrary"
            qbs.install: true
            qbs.installSourceBase: buildDirectory
        }

But I don't think this is good one.

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Apr 02 '21 at 09:12

From qbs 1.19 on, this should work transparently by just setting "install: true" on the StaticLibrary item (as it already does for non-multiplexed products). See https://codereview.qt-project.org/c/qbs/qbs/+/339928 for how multiplexing is handled there. But if your workaround does the trick, you could just as well keep using it until then.

How to install universal binary artifacts in qbs?

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