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| author | Leena Miettinen <riitta-leena.miettinen@digia.com> | 2013-08-21 15:02:06 +0200 |
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| committer | The Qt Project <gerrit-noreply@qt-project.org> | 2013-08-21 16:31:02 +0200 |
| commit | fdfe3b6d5ff8f177d0902b6ec2ede46fcce8d731 (patch) | |
| tree | 05ef24ed63635bbd0c6cb4556e39120e833f0a95 /doc | |
| parent | d86e651a6eb2382365295ec1b2b022b9f0a08f92 (diff) | |
| download | qt4-tools-fdfe3b6d5ff8f177d0902b6ec2ede46fcce8d731.tar.gz | |
Doc: Update description of qmake LIBS variable
Rewrite the note about specifying libraries on Windows
to make it clearer and change the library name to match the
one in the snippet.
Task-number: QTBUG-30229
Change-Id: I55c5579f5ead2fadc5d75baa2172b03f20c9f689
Reviewed-by: Oswald Buddenhagen <oswald.buddenhagen@digia.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'doc')
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/src/development/qmake-manual.qdoc | 14 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/doc/src/development/qmake-manual.qdoc b/doc/src/development/qmake-manual.qdoc index ce33158a1e..70548aa079 100644 --- a/doc/src/development/qmake-manual.qdoc +++ b/doc/src/development/qmake-manual.qdoc @@ -1826,19 +1826,19 @@ \snippet doc/src/snippets/code/doc_src_qmake-manual.pro 38 + \bold{Note:} On Windows, specifying libraries with the \c{-l} option + will cause the library with the highest version + number to be used. For example, \c{math2.lib} could potentially be used + instead of \c{math.lib}. To avoid this ambiguity, we recommend that you + explicitly specify the library to be used by including the \c{.lib} + file name suffix, as in the example above. + To specify a path containing spaces, quote the path using the technique mentioned in the \l{qmake Project Files#Whitespace}{qmake Project Files} document. \snippet doc/src/snippets/qmake/spaces.pro quoting library paths with spaces - \bold{Note:} On Windows, specifying libraries with the \c{-l} option, - as in the above example, will cause the library with the highest version - number to be used; for example, \c{libmath2.lib} could potentially be used - instead of \c{libmathlib}. To avoid this ambiguity, we recommend that you - explicitly specify the library to be used by including the \c{.lib} - file name suffix. - \bold{Note:} On the Symbian platform, the build system makes a distinction between shared and static libraries. In most cases, qmake will figure out which library you |