[Development] Proposing to move deploy tools to qtbase

Ulf Hermann ulf.hermann at qt.io
Tue Nov 16 15:23:17 CET 2021


> I’m working on adding new CMake APIs for install support for Qt 6.3. As 
> part of that, there will be conveniences for invoking the appropriate 
> xxxdeployqt tool where available. At the moment, macdeployqt and 
> windeployqt live in qttools, whereas androiddeployqt lives in qtbase. 
> I’d like to propose moving macdeployqt and windeployqt to qtbase as 
> well.

+1

Installation and deployment has to be part of the core functionality of 
Qt's build system, not some afterthought.


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