Qt project files and PREFIX variable
I included PREFIX = /usr/local inside my project file and then I run qmake myproject.pro The makefile doesn't say anything about PREFIX though so I assume that i'm doing something wrong. Any ideas? PREFIX doesn't mean anything in qmake files. The target for files is done via the target parameter. So if you want to make PREFIX determine the base location, such as /usr/local , you can do do something like this: isEmpty(PREFIX) { PREFIX = /usr/local } TARGET = myapp TARGET.path = $$PREFIX/ The isEmpty(PREFIX) will allow it to be changed during the command line call to qmake, e.g. qmake PREFIX=