qt无法添加现有文件到工程_添加对象（.o）文件来qtcreator项目

How does one add third party .o and .h files to a Qt C++ project in QtCreator? I want to add some compiled .o files from John The Ripper to my probject (ignore the non-cross-platformness of that). As a test, a wrote a small C program (outside QtCreator) and linked it against common.o and MD5_std.o and it worked fine; I can just do gcc -o runme common.o MD5_std.o simpleprogram.c, but with QtCreator, nothing seems to work. I keep getting undefined references.

I tried adding this to the .pro file:

LIBS += "$$_PRO_FILE_PWD_/common.o" "$$_PRO_FILE_PWD_/MD5_std.o"

And this:

LIBS += /full/path/to/common.o /full/path/to/MD5_std.o

I also tried setting INCLUDEPATH and adding the .o files as 'other files' and 'sources' in the .pro file, but no matter what I do, the calls to the functions in the .o files always result