Qt: make and install module on non-host platform

Question

I am developing an app using a QML-based module (https://github.com/papyros/qml-material) on OSX and would like to test the app on Android and iOS.

How do I set up the qmake file so that the module gets properly installed for the Android and iOS platforms (or, for that matter, any other non-host platform which I have in my Qt distribution) on my host system?

In this specific case, just copying the module folder to e.g. Qt/5.4/android_armv7/qml does not work as the module needs to install some QtQuick Styles and other stuff elsewhere as well.

Answer 1

I figured this out. Running the platform-specific qmake alone wasn't working because this project contained two subprojects, each one with its own Makefile.

It was sufficient to (re-)run the platform-specific qmake for each subproject and for the main project prior to running sudo make install.

So the bottom line is, make sure that the Makefiles that qmake generates for subprojects are updated for your target platform.