[Interest] Desktop deployment

[Mandeep Sandhu]

Hi,

We too use a custom build step for packaging all the
binaries/libraries/resources for deployment, though this step is done
outside of qmake from a top-level Makefile.

We are almost building a mini Linux distribution for our embedded product,
so the final packaging step involves copying all built stuff from different
sub-projects (many of which have their own build-systems) into a common
area which is used as-is for deployment.

We have a 'install' dir for almost all our projects (main app, Qt libs,
external libraries etc). The final packaging step involves cherry picking
the correct files from this "install" dir and copying it over in a
"release" dir (we also modify some files like qt.conf in this step to
reflect the directory structure in use in the release dir).

HTH,
-mandeep



On Thu, Jun 20, 2013 at 12:09 PM, Stephen King
<Stephen.King at domino-uk.com>wrote:

>
>
> 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.
>
> 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
>
>
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> 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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