I do not think changing directories is a good idea in qmake. What do you want to do?

I have some code generation scripts that need to run on compilation in another directory, normally I would readjust the way the script executes but this is a part of a much larger project and editing the script may destabilize other coder’s projects. I cannot really make this a ‘one-off’ solution unfortunately.

urgentDiplomacy wrote:

Hello,

This setup seems to work fine on Linux (with the appropriate changes to mydir and dir call).

I don’t know why you think this works on Linux. IMO, this should fail under any OS. As the command passed to system() will run in another process.

If you’re not able to change the original scripts, I would write wrapper script that takes the desired directory as argument, changes directory to it and calls then calls the original script.

Thanks Volker and Herder for your help! I should have said that some people on my project believe that it works in linux but it doesn’t for the reasons you specified Herder.

[SOLVED] thanks to Herder.