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arqam
arqam

Reputation: 3809

Pushing QT Project GIT with external libraries

I have created a QT project which uses openCV as external library, now I have to push this project in bitbucket.

I configured openCV in my local QT project as described in here : https://www.learnopencv.com/configuring-qt-for-opencv-on-osx/

But when someone will be pulling the project he/she will not go with the pain to link the QT project to the local paths, so how can I solve this problem of using external libraries when sent using QT.

Also, when I am pushing the project, do we need to send all the files? Many sources are saying that .pro goes in .gitignore, if that is so, then how will the person use the project directly in his QT Creator without a .pro file?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 142

Answers (1)

m7913d
m7913d

Reputation: 11072

I would include the .pro file in git and add instructions on how to coop with external libraries (in a README file). Also this projects, which contains a lot of .gitignore examples, does not ignore .pro files.

Possible solutions to avoid conflicts due to each user specifying its own external library location:

  • Include another .pri file, containing the user dependent stuff. You can include in git a sample file, but the concrete implementation should be ignored by git.

  • Define all the user dependent variables as optional arguments to qmake (Projects > Build > Build Steps > qmake > Additional arguments).

Upvotes: 2

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