qmake doesn't like image files starting with "r"

[Pepe]

Qt 4.2.3 Windows open source edition.

In my *.pro file I have something like this:

IMAGES = icons/icon1.png \
icons/resize.png \
....

Well, make fails with a "missing separator" error. This is because qmake created a wrong Makefile.Release.

In the Makefile.Release, instead of icons\resize.png appears:
icons
esize.png

It seems that the "\r" characters in "icons\resize" is interpreted as a line break.

This problem happens too with filenames starting with "t" and "n" (\t \n).

So I can't have any files starting with "r", "t" or "n" in the IMAGES section of the pro file.

I tried writing it "icons\resize.png", "icons//resize.png", "icons\\resize.png", nothing... the same result.

Is this a bug or am I doing something wrong?

(This problem doesn't occur in linux)

[magland]

I believe that "IMAGES" is not a qmake variable for qt4.
Use RESOURCES instead.

For example,
RESOURCES += myresources.qrc
and then in myresources.qrc you could have something like

<RCC>
    <qresource prefix="/" >
        <file>icons/icon1.png</file>
        <file>icons/resize.png</file>
    </qresource>
</RCC>

<RCC>
    <qresource prefix="/" >
        <file>icons/icon1.png</file>
        <file>icons/resize.png</file>
    </qresource>
</RCC>

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[Pepe]

Yes, but I'm developing a Qt 3 program which I need to compilable with Qt 4 too.

So I need to use IMAGES.

[magland]

You can split into two cases using something like:

QT_VERSION=$$[QT_VERSION]
contains( QT_VERSION, "^4.*" ) {
 RESOURCES += ...
}
else {
  IMAGES += ...
}

QT_VERSION=$$[QT_VERSION]
contains( QT_VERSION, "^4.*" ) {
 RESOURCES += ...
}
else {
  IMAGES += ...
}

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[wysota]

Use forward slashes (/) instead of backward slashes (\) as path separators, for instance "images/resize.png".

[Pepe]

Actually I already use forward slashes (/) for paths (the program is developed in linux) but qmake converts them to "\" when creates the makefile.

qmake in linux (using the same version, 4.2.3) works perfectly. It seems to be a bug in the windows version of qmake.

[wysota]

Does qmake from Qt3 convert slashes to backslashes as well?

[Pepe]

I don't have Qt 3 in Windows.

In Linux, of course, it does not.

[wysota]

So if you don't compile with Qt3 under Windows, maybe you could simply wrap your IMAGES variable into a scope that Windows will ignore?

unix {
IMAGES += ...
}