[Development] Creating an offline installer

[Iikka Eklund]

Hi,

On 07/17/2013 10:07 AM, Yves Bailly wrote:
> Hello Andreas,
>
> Le 17/07/2013 08:54, Andreas Holzammer a écrit :
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>> this is broken at the moment. It was changed from Qt 4.8.0 which had a
>> bug in language support to Qt 4.8.4 But then it was also changed from
>> 7z to tar gz, which is not very well supported in Windows. Also
>> another slide glitch went in with this change. the Qt 4.8.0 was
>> patched to link against the static c++ runtime. But yeah apparently
>> thats not the case anymore with the Qt 4.8.4 package.

"patched" 4.8.4 source packages exist here:

http://download.qt-project.org/development_releases/prebuilt/qt-src-for-ifw/qt_4.8.4_ifw_prepared.zip

The 4.8.4 src package is patched the same way as the previously used 
4.8.0 src package for installer-framework.

- iikka



> Please deflate
>> the archive to \release-tools\qt-src and patch accordingly to
>
> ...stripping the top-level directory... ;-)
>
>> http://qt.gitorious.org/installer-framework/installer-framework/blobs/master/INSTALL
>
> Something is strange in this file. It says:
> "- add 'embed_manifest_dll embed_manifest_exe' to CONFIG line"
>
> ...but looking at the "diff" given below, I see:
>
> -CONFIG                  += qt warn_on release incremental flat link_prl precompile_header
> autogen_precompile_source copy_dir_files debug_and_release debug_and_release_target
> embed_manifest_dll embed_manifest_exe
>
> +CONFIG                  += qt warn_on release incremental flat link_prl precompile_header
> autogen_precompile_source copy_dir_files debug_and_release debug_and_release_target
>
>
> ...where it seems the options "embed_manifest_dll embed_manifest_exe" have been *removed*,
> not added. Trusting the diff I'm removing them, after all manifests are useless in a
> static build.
>
>> Then you can call the script with --incremental and he should just go
>> forward.
>
> Nope... now it complains it can't find qmake:
> -----------------------------------------
> INCREMENTAL_MODE
> D:\qt\release-tools\ifw-bld
> --------------------------------------------------------------------
> Building Installer Framework
> *** Unable to find qmake, aborting!
> qmake: D:\qt\release-tools\qt-bld\bin\qmake.exe
>
> I'll try to build manually and copy files where needed.
>
>> Hope this helps
>
> It does :-) Thanks for your help.
>
>
>
>>
>> Am 17.07.2013 08:27, schrieb Yves Bailly:
>>> Le 16/07/2013 15:21, Sergio Ahumada a écrit :
>>>> On 07/16/2013 03:06 PM, Yves Bailly wrote:
>>>>> Le 16/07/2013 10:50, Sergio Ahumada a écrit :
>>>>>> On 07/16/2013 09:39 AM, Yves Bailly wrote:
>>>>>>> [...] INSTALLER_FRAMEWORK_PRODUCT_KEY_CHECKER_BRANCH
>>>>>>> TypeError: __init__() takes exactly 10 arguments (9 given)
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> You could try this patch
>>>>>> https://codereview.qt-project.org/61092
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Also, I'd say the README file is pretty out-of-date, so if
>>>>>> you find errors you could maybe provide some fixes in
>>>>>> Gerrit.
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks for your input... now I'm experiencing troubles when it
>>>>> tries to "git clone" the installer framework, firewall
>>>>> problem...
>>>>
>>>> There is an attempt to create a python script to handle all the
>>>> needed steps at https://codereview.qt-project.org/54538
>>>>
>>>> You could also try
>>>> http://qt-project.org/wiki/Building-Qt-Package
>>>>
>>>> Both are pretty much work in progress though.
>>>
>>> Hello, it's me again trying to create an offline installer...
>>>
>>> Now I'm having trouble with tar: Executing:      [tar -xzf
>>> D:\qt\release-tools\qt_4.8.4_ifw_prepared.tar.gz] Execution path:
>>> [...]
>


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