[CMake] How to embed Qt resources using CMake
Bogdan Cristea
cristeab at gmail.com
Mon Jul 8 12:25:10 EDT 2013
The paths should be relative to the folder where your qrc file reside.
Then you can use
QT4_ADD_RESOURCES(lib_resources icons.qrc)
add_library(mylib ${lib_srcs} ${lib_resources})
On 08.07.2013 18:17, Júlio Hoffimann wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> I'm not that experienced with Qt, but I'm migrating an existing
> application to use CMake as the build system. It all worked smoothly,
> except the icons in the GUI aren't being shown.
>
> Suppose I'm a directory named main/ that has a subdirectory named
> resources/pixmaps:
>
> main/
> -- resources/
> -- -- pixmaps/
> -- -- -- icon1.png
> -- -- -- icon2.png
>
> My CMakeLists.txt resides at main/. I also have an icons.qrc with the
> following content:
> <RCC>
> <qresource prefix="/icons">
> <file>resources/pixmaps/icon1.png</file>
> <file>resources/pixmaps/icon2.png</file>
> </qresource>
> </RCC>
>
> I tried the following:
>
> QT4_ADD_RESOURCES(lib_resources icons.qrc)
> add_library(mylib ${lib_srcs} ${lib_resources})
>
> Should I copy icons.qrc to the correspondent
> ${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR}? The paths in icons.qrc should be relative
> to what?
>
> I have tried put @CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR@ in the icons.qrc entries
> and configure_file() it for getting absolute paths:
>
> <RCC>
> <qresource prefix="/icons">
> <file alias="resources/pixmaps/icon1.png">@CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR@/resources/pixmaps/icon1.png</file>
> <file alias="resources/pixmaps/icon2.png">@CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR@/resources/pixmaps/icon2.png</file>
> </qresource>
> </RCC>
>
> but also didn't work.
>
> I appreciate if you provide a minimal working example with best
> practices regarding CMake parallel builds. Perhaps a hello world
> example with an icon instead?
>
> Best,
> Júlio.
>
>
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