Question

Qt Creator 2.5.2 on Win 7: I am using this approach ( Qt. Automatically adding version for application ) to add a VERSION number for my source code in Qt Creator.

However, since my Mercurial is installed in C:\TortoiseHg\hg , I have to specify

VERSION = $$system(C:\TortoiseHg\hg parents --template '{latesttag}+{latesttagdistance}')

This full path is not very nice, since others might have installed in different places. The location is correctly set under Qt Creator Tools -> Options -> Version Control -> Mercurial.

Is there a chance (variable) reflecting this setting, or another workaround? Guess in order to use VERSION = $$system(hg parents --template '{latesttag}+{latesttagdistance}') I have to globally add C:\TortoiseHg\ to PATH – which I’d like to avoid for some reasons.

So what is the best way getting rid of the absolute path?

Answer 1

.pro file is not only a QtCreator project, but qmake project file – qmake may not know what you specify in QtCreator settings. If you don’t want to add path to hg.exe to PATH, you may want to create separate environment variable an try to use it in $$system.