[Development] Non-movable Qt build

[Sergio Ahumada]

On 01/02/2013 02:09 PM, Yves Bailly wrote:
> Le 02/01/2013 13:50, Sergio Ahumada a écrit :
>> On 01/02/2013 01:50 PM, Yves Bailly wrote:
>>> Le 02/01/2013 13:42, Thiago Macieira a écrit :
>>>> On quarta-feira, 2 de janeiro de 2013 10.53.03, Yves Bailly wrote:
>>>>> Does anyone knows where I could find the source code of the "official"
>>>>> installer, or at least some information about what it does? Because the
>>>>> installer does relocate the binaries, that would be a good starting point
>>>>> to relocate my own binaries...
>>>>
>>>> It simply edits the qmake and QtCore DLL binaries, plus maybe some files in
>>>> mkspecs, changing a placeholder prefix to the installation dir.
>>>
>>> Editing binaries? hu, havent't done that since... a long time ;-) Changing some
>>> internal strings I guess? any idea which one or how they can be spotted?
>>
>> http://qt-project.org/wiki/Building-Qt-Package
>> may give some ideas
>
> Quite interesting indeed... too bad those "release-tools/" seem not provided
> with the downloadable source archives, I guess they're available only from Git.
> Also it seems they would need to be tweaked a bit, e.g. to give the needed options
> to "configure".
>
> I'll have a look at this, however, as someone already said, it would be very
> nice if a kind of "packager" was provided with the source archives. Maybe
> make the "installer framework" (cited by Maurice) publicly available and
> usable?

https://qt.gitorious.org/installer-framework/installer-framework

https://codereview.qt-project.org/#admin,project,installer-framework/installer-framework,info

AFAIU, if you call "create_installer.py --devmode" it also builds the 
installer framework for you.

Otherwise:

http://releases.qt-project.org/digia/ifw_prebuilt/

http://releases.qt-project.org/utils/bin_tools/pre_sdk_ifw/

http://doc-snapshot.qt-project.org/qtifw-1.2/ifw-overview.html

>
> Thanks for the information.
>


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Sergio Ahumada
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