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\snippet doc/src/snippets/code/doc_src_qmake-manual.pro 38
+ \bold{Note:} On Windows, specifying libraries with the \c{-l} option
+ will cause the library with the highest version
+ number to be used. For example, \c{math2.lib} could potentially be used
+ instead of \c{math.lib}. To avoid this ambiguity, we recommend that you
+ explicitly specify the library to be used by including the \c{.lib}
+ file name suffix, as in the example above.
+
To specify a path containing spaces, quote the path using the technique
mentioned in the \l{qmake Project Files#Whitespace}{qmake Project Files}
document.
\snippet doc/src/snippets/qmake/spaces.pro quoting library paths with spaces
- \bold{Note:} On Windows, specifying libraries with the \c{-l} option,
- as in the above example, will cause the library with the highest version
- number to be used; for example, \c{libmath2.lib} could potentially be used
- instead of \c{libmathlib}. To avoid this ambiguity, we recommend that you
- explicitly specify the library to be used by including the \c{.lib}
- file name suffix.
-
\bold{Note:} On the Symbian platform, the build system makes a
distinction between shared and
static libraries. In most cases, qmake will figure out which library you