first, store the library's full name in the .prl file, like we do on
unix. this is not expected to have any side effects, as QMAKE_PRL_TARGET
was entirely unused under windows so far.
then, rewrite the mingw library handling: instead of letting the linker
resolve the actual libraries, do it ourselves like we do for msvc. we
could not do that before due to the partial file names in the .prl
files: if the library didn't exist at qmake execution time, we'd have to
guess the file extension (the msvc generators never had that problem, as
they know about only one possible extension for libraries anyway).
make use of processPrlFile()'s ability to replace the reference to
the .prl file with the actual library. that way we don't need to
re-assemble the file name from pieces, which was fragile and
inefficient.
QMAKE_*_VERSION_OVERRIDE does not affect libraries coming with .prl
files any more. additionally, it is now used literally (not
numerically), and values less or equal to zero lost their special
meaning as "none" - this isn't a problem, because that's the default
anyway, and there is no need to override bogus versions from .prl files
any more.
no changelog for that, as i found no public traces of that feature
outside qtbase.
[ChangeLog][qmake][Windows] Libraries coming with .prl files can now
have non-standard file extensions and a major version of zero.
[ChangeLog][qmake][Windows][Important Behavior Changes] The .prl files
written by earlier versions of Qt cannot be used any more. This will
affect you if you depend on 3rd party libraries which come with .prl
files. Patch up QMAKE_PRL_TARGET to contain the complete file name of
the library, and replace any /LIBPATH: in QMAKE_PRL_LIBS with -L.
(the part about /LIBPATH: actually refers to the next commit.)
Change-Id: I07399341bff0609cb6db9660cbc62b141fb2ad96
Reviewed-by: Joerg Bornemann <joerg.bornemann@theqtcompany.com>
Reviewed-by: Oswald Buddenhagen <oswald.buddenhagen@theqtcompany.com>
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