[Interest] can qt.conf be put in a common location?

[Thiago Macieira]

On terça-feira, 29 de janeiro de 2013 08.55.00, Yves Bailly wrote:
> Le 29/01/2013 06:34, Thiago Macieira a écrit :
> > On segunda-feira, 28 de janeiro de 2013 19.44.18, VStevenP wrote:
> >> Is it possible to specify a shared location for qt.conf using an
> >> environment variable?
> >> 
> >> It's being a bit of a pain to put a qt.conf file in the app dir for every
> >> Qt example installed on my target system.
> >> 
> >> If I could specify a location where the file could be found, I wouldn't
> >> have to create a qt.conf for every Qt example I want to run on the
> >> target.> 
> > Why do you need a qt.conf in the first place? qt.conf is supposed to be
> > used for an application that can be installed to an arbitrary location.
> Which is the case for roughly 99% of Windows apps for example... 

Yes, that's what qt.conf is for :-)

> This old
> "Qt doesn't know about SDK vs deployment location", as said Lincoln, is a
> real pain on Windows. No way qt.conf can be "optional" on Windows, unless
> you have a total control over the client's system - which is the case
> for roughly 1% of customers... The "build twice" advice simply doesn't work.

I really don't get what you or Lincoln are talking about. I don't see why 
building twice is necessary. Just deploy the DLLs that you compiled your 
application with, alongside a qt.conf file. If you want to avoid a qt.conf file, 
create an installation procedure that changes the hardcoded paths in the 
QtCore DLL.

-- 
Thiago Macieira - thiago.macieira (AT) intel.com
  Software Architect - Intel Open Source Technology Center
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