How to force qmake not to create symbolic links to target when TEMPLATE=lib ?

Question

I have a (partial) qmake project file like this:

TEMPLATE=lib
TARGET=whatever
SOURCES=whatever.cpp
HEADERS=whatever.h

This will - atleast by default - create a library and few symbolic links like this:

libwhatever.so -> libwhatever.so.0.1.0
libwhatever.so.0 -> libwhatever.so.0.1.0
libwhatever.so.0.1 -> libwhatever.so.0.1.0
libwhatever.so.0.1.0

libwhatever.so.0.1.0 is the actual library binary, rest of them are just symbolic links.

What i would like to archive is that no symbolic links are created at all or the order what be other way around so that libwhatever.so would be the actual binary and rest are the symbolic links.

Answer 1

It might help if you gave us some hint as to why it matters...

As for how, you might consider a script that will rearrange things to your liking that is run at the end of the build process.

Answer 2

I studied the qmake sources and the mkspecs, but it seems that the generation of the symbolic links is rather hardwired.

From what I found in the sources, it seems that if you add plugin to CONFIG, only the library will be generated, without the symbolic links.

I can't tell you if doing so has any other side effects, though. But it seems to be the only way to get rid of the symbolic links without having to write a script that runs after building.

Answer 3

If you override the QMAKE_LN_SHLIB variable with a no-op, it will not make the symbolic links.

QMAKE_LN_SHLIB       = :