qmake : Build library without the symlinks and 'lib' prefix

Question

I require a very simple mechanism in my application, where my project is built as a shared library '.so' or '.dll', but what I want is:

ExampleAppOne.so

I get:

libExampleAppOne.so -> libExampleAppOne.so.1.0.0
libExampleAppOne.so.1 -> libExampleAppOne.so.1.0.0
libExampleAppOne.so.1.0 -> libExampleAppOne.so.1.0.0

I don't even want the 'lib' prefix. In the .pro file, all I can do is change the INSTALLS variable (that is because my third requirement IS that the library be built in a specific directory).

Also, I have a fourth, related requirement: When I ask QLibrary to load the library, I want it to specifically search for a library in a very specific path and a library that matches the EXACT name given to it. No 'lib' prefix matching, no 'version string' searching, no looking into LD_LIBRARY_PATH...

Any help is appreciated.

Regards, rohan

Answer 1

add the following to you .pro file

# disables the lib prefix
CONFIG += no_plugin_name_prefix
# disable symlinks & versioning
CONFIG += plugin

Answer 2

Adding plugin to the CONFIG variable should disable versioning and the generation of symbolic links to the library.

I don't know of a simple way to disable the lib prefix though. You way want to dig into the provided QMake spec files to see how the default processing is implemented.