What is the easiest way to reference libraries in Qt projects?

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Published on 2010-05-20T02:19:24Z Indexed on 2010/05/20 2:20 UTC
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I have two Qt4 Gui Application projects and one shared library project, all referenced under a .pro file with the "subdirs" template. So, it's like:

exampleapp.pro
- app1.pro
- app2.pro
- sharedlib.pro

Now, what I want to do is reference sharedlib from app1 and app2 so that every time I run app1.exe, I don't have to manually copy sharedlib.dll from its own folder to app1.exe's folder.

I could set PATH environment variable in the projects window, but this isn't very portable. I've looked at putting the LIBS variable in the app1.pro file, but I'm not sure if that refers to statically linked libraries only - I've tried it with various syntaxes and it doesn't seem to work with shared libs.

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