[Interest] tQRE: Desktop deployment

[Koehne Kai]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: interest-bounces+kai.koehne=digia.com at qt-project.org
> [mailto:interest-bounces+kai.koehne=digia.com at qt-project.org] On Behalf Of
> Stephen King
> Sent: Thursday, June 20, 2013 8:40 AM
> To: Yves Bailly; Interest at qt-project.org
> Subject: Re: [Interest] Desktop deployment
> 
> 
> 
> Hi,
> 
> We use a custom build step in our .pro file to copy everything into a single
> directory ready for deployment (onto WinCE in our case). I think that using
> qmake you have all of the information you need for example the QT variable
> holds which Qt modules you're using so you can use that to figure out which
> Qt Dlls to copy.

The trouble is usually the plugins & QML imports, which are runtime dependencies not declared in qmake. Neither are e.g. VS runtimes, ICU libs if needed etc .

Anyhow, for a "just get something to deploy", copying all Qt libs, plugins, QML imports etc is a safe choice.

Regards

Kai

> Then again if you're doing everything in VisualStudio it might be easier to just
> create an installer for internal consumption from within VS, it's pretty easy to
> just drag in the dependencies.
> 
> Regards,
> Steve
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: interest-bounces+stephen.king=domino-uk.com at qt-project.org
> [mailto:interest-bounces+stephen.king=domino-uk.com at qt-project.org] On
> Behalf Of Yves Bailly
> Sent: 20 June 2013 07:13
> To: Interest at qt-project.org
> Subject: Re: [Interest] Desktop deployment
> 
> Le 20/06/2013 01:16, Alex Malyushytskyy a écrit :
> > I just wanted to point that you must to deploy all dependencies not only Qt.
> > You will have to deploy VC CRTs at least if your application has no other
> dependencies.
> 
> I'm perfectly aware of this. Here my "problem" is more in the case where I just
> want to copy my exe to someone's else computer (which already have already
> all the needed "standard" runtimes installed).
> Creating a full-fledged, customer-targeted installer is another matter, which is
> already nicely handled.
> 
> Regards,
> 
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