Quote Originally Posted by wysota View Post
How do you use this function? All it does is return the name of the library. What happens if you write this instead of using the function?

qmake Code: 
  1. TARGET=mylibname
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See my original post; I already know what the function's outputs are, or seem to be, and I already have a mixture of project files, some that use it, others that don't.

My question is simple: what, exactly, is the function supposed to do? Since no one seems to know the answer to that question, I'm left to assume that it's simply an internal function that, as already noted, returns the system-specific name of the library being built, that it is used internally by qmake for this purpose, and the multitude of examples both in the Qt tutorials and examples code and scattered, albeit inconsistently, throughout Qt's source tree itself are, in fact, pointless escapees from the development environment.

At least, that's the assumption I'm going to adopt unless someone can put forward some actual documentation.