I am working on a batch script to automate building a Qt project.
One issue i am having is the fact that the install directory path of Qt may not be the same for every user.
For example, on my system the path of my mingw48_32 is:
c:\Qt\Qt5.2.0\5.2.0\mingw48_32
but on someone elses system it may be
c:\Qt\5.2.0\mingw48_32 depending on how they chose to set it up.
So when i am specifying the path for the qmake.exe, i need to know that the path to qmake.exe is.
How can i search for a file, and copy its path from a batch script?
whence.bat
Not really like the real whence, but it might be helpful.
@SETLOCAL ENABLEEXTENSIONS ENABLEDELAYEDEXPANSION
@SET EXITCODE=1
:: Needs an argument.
@IF "x%1"=="x" (
@ECHO Usage: %0 ^<progName^>
GOTO TheEnd
)
@set newline=^
@REM Previous two (2) blank lines are required. Do not change!
@REM Ensure that the current working directory is first
@REM because that is where DOS looks first.
@PATH=.;!PATH!
@FOR /F "tokens=*" %%i in ("%PATH:;=!newline!%") DO @(
@IF EXIST %%i\%1 (
@ECHO %%i\%1
@SET EXITCODE=0
)
@FOR /F "tokens=*" %%x in ("%PATHEXT:;=!newline!%") DO @(
@IF EXIST %%i\%1%%x (
@ECHO %%i\%1%%x
@SET EXITCODE=0
)
)
)
:TheEnd
@EXIT /B %EXITCODE%