resolve
Synopsis
qbs resolve [options] [[config:configuration-name] [property:value] ...]
Description
Resolves a project in one or more configurations. Run this command to change the properties of an existing build.
Options
--build-directory|-d <directory>
Specifies a <directory>
where build artifacts are stored.
The default value is the current directory unless preferences.defaultBuildDirectory
is set.
Relative paths will be interpreted relative to the current directory.
You can use the following special values as placeholders:
@project
is expanded to the name of the project file excluding the extension.qbs
.@path
is expanded to the name of the directory containing the project file.
--dry-run|-n
Performs a dry run. No commands will be executed and no permanent changes to the build graph will be done.
[--file|-f <file>]
Uses <file>
as the project file. If <file>
is a directory and it contains a single file with the extension .qbs
, that file will be used.
If this option is not given at all, the behavior is the same as for -f <working-dir>
.
--force-probe-execution
Forces re-execution of all Probe items' configure scripts, rather than using the cached data.
--less-verbose|-q
Becomes more quiet by decreasing the log level by one. This option can be given more than once. Excessive occurrences have no effect.
If the option --log-level
appears anywhere on the command line in addition to this option, its value is taken as the base for the decrease.
--log-level <level>
Uses the specified log level.
Possible values of <level>
are:
error
warning
info
(default value)debug
trace
--log-time
Logs the time that the operations involved in this command take.
This option is implied in log levels debug
and higher.
This option is mutually exclusive with --show-progress
.
--more-verbose|-v
Becomes more verbose by increasing the log level by one. This option can be given more than once. Excessive occurrences have no effect.
If the option --log-level
appears anywhere on the command line in addition to this option, its value is taken as the base for the increase.
--settings-dir <directory>
Reads all settings (such as profile information) from the specified <directory>
. If the directory does not exist, it will be created.
The default value is system-specific. For example:
- Linux:
$HOME/.config/QtProject/qbs
- Windows:
%APPDATA%\QtProject\qbs
- macOS:
$HOME/Library/Preferences/qbs
--show-progress
Shows how command execution is progressing.
This option is mutually exclusive with --log-time
.
Note: This option is not available on a Windows host.
Parameters
config:configuration-name
Specifies the build configuration to use.
The debug
and release
configuration names imply the respective build variant. A debug build contains additional debug symbols that are needed for debugging the application but that can be left out from the release version. Generally, debug builds are used for testing and release builds for creating the final installation file.
The build variant can also be specified explicitly by using the qbs.buildVariant property.
When naming configurations created for special purposes, follow the rules for legal names generally used in programming languages:
- The first character must be a letter (a-z), an underscore (_), or a dollar sign ($).
- Subsequent characters may be letters, digits, underscores, or dollar signs.
property:value
Property values set in project files or profiles can be overridden on the command line. The syntax is:
<prefix>.<property-name>:<property-value>
For more information, see Overriding Property Values from the Command Line.
Examples
Resolves the default configuration of the project in the current directory:
qbs resolve