[CMake] Copying DLLs to output directory

[Michael Jackson]

The thing I could never figure out is how to set the PATH for the Visual Studio Project/Solution. That is what I need. If I only had a single version of Qt on my system it would be very straight forward. Just set the PATH environment variable using the standard windows mechanism for doing that and you are set. Alas, that isn't the case. I have at least 4 different versions of Qt on my system at any one time. So tell me how to, in the CMake file, to tell the Visual Studio generated solution to add C:/Developer/x64/Qt-4.8.6/bin to my PATH and I would gladly rip out all my code. I also need a mechanism to "install" all those DLL's into an redistributable package (which my scripts ensure). Maybe I am just that far behind the times. One of those "if it aint broke don't fix it".

Looking forward to the answer
Mike Jackson

On Oct 31, 2014, at 3:51 PM, Bill Somerville <bill at classdesign.com> wrote:

> On 31/10/2014 19:42, Michael Jackson wrote:
>> Never said it was pretty, but here is the code I use for Qt4 based projects. I think I had to revamp a lot of this for Qt5. I call it like so:
>> 
>> CMP_COPY_QT4_RUNTIME_LIBRARIES( "QtCore;QtGui;QtNetwork")
> This seems an awful lot of messing around when qt-project.org already dump all the debug and release libraries into the installation bin directory so all you need is to ensure that the installation bin directory is on your PATH when you run or debug executables, just like you have to to build using the tools like moc, qmake, dumpcpp, qrc, etc..
> 
> IMHO put he Qt bin directory on PATH for debugging and use BundleUtils FixupBundle to make deployable kits. No need to do any manual or scripted copying of libraries at all.
> 
> Regards
> Bill.
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