Qt resources files with CMake and AUTORCC

Question

Solution:

Add resource files in the add_executable() statement

Problem

(not in the add_library())

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Answer 1

I'm not sure if this is new or not, but I have figured out a way to add resources to libraries.

In my library's CMakeLists.txt I have the following:

list (APPEND RESOURCES library.qrc)
qt5_add_resources (RCC_SOURCES ${RESOURCES})

...

add_library(library ${RCC_SOURCES} ${SOURCES})

In the library, in one of my "main classes" (for me, this class was the first thing that gets created in the library and the last thing that gets destroyed), I did the following:

class libClass : public QMainWindow {
  Q_OBJECT

public:
  libClass() : QMainWindow(nullptr, 0) {
    Q_INIT_RESOURCE(library);
  }

  ~libClass() {
    Q_CLEANUP_RESOURCE(library);
  }
};

Answer 2

I think you need to link qrc_resources generated file.

I suppose you know the next info:

http://www.cmake.org/cmake/help/v3.0/manual/cmake-qt.7.html

Where you can see the next line:

add_executable(myexe main.cpp resource_file.qrc)

More info:

http://www.cmake.org/cmake/help/v3.0/prop_tgt/AUTORCC.html