Unable to Copy directory recursively

mark waston

I can't set "Copy directory recursively" in build steps correctly, I want to copy some dll to the build dir, but it kept getting errors.

What is the right format?

jsulm

@mark-waston said in Unable to Copy directory recursively:

but it kept getting errors

Please post the errors

mark waston

@jsulm

jsulm

@mark-waston And this is all you get as error?

mark waston

@jsulm yes.Is there any problem with my qtcreator installation?

Assyrion

@mark-waston I have the same problem, did you fix it ?

Alex To

I have exactly the same issue.
16:01:44: Error while building/deploying project dynamic-channel-qt (kit: Desktop Qt 6.10.1)
16:01:44: When executing step "Copy directory recursively"

Is there any idea when I can find why QTCreactor cannot do it?

Product: Qt Creator 18.0.2
Based on: Qt 6.10.1 (GCC 10.3.1 20210422 (Red Hat 10.3.1-1), x86_64)
Built on: Jan 23 2026 00:23:49
From revision: 81c92cce94

Regards,

jsulm

Where is you project located? Where is the build folder located? Network drive?

J.Hilk

Oh my, didn't know this was a thing!

I assume these settings are lost/not usually part of a versioning system?

@Alex-To do you use cmake?

I use this function in cmake:

function(copy_dir TARGET SRC_REL DEST_REL)
    add_custom_command(TARGET ${TARGET} POST_BUILD
      COMMAND ${CMAKE_COMMAND} -E make_directory "${DEPLOYMENT_PATH}/$<CONFIG>/${DEST_REL}"
      COMMAND ${CMAKE_COMMAND} -E copy_directory
              "${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}/${SRC_REL}"
              "${DEPLOYMENT_PATH}/$<CONFIG>/${DEST_REL}"
      VERBATIM
    )
  endfunction()