[Interest] Deploying Qt to MacOs still...errr, sucks?

Daniel França daniel.franca at gmail.com
Mon Feb 9 18:36:45 CET 2015


Thanks Oliver,
I definitely need to understand better how to use install_name_tool.
I'll look into that, but I think my case it should be simpler, as I don't
use any 3rd party library.

Em Mon Feb 09 2015 at 6:33:40 PM, Daniel França <daniel.franca at gmail.com>
escreveu:

> I think the first parameter of macdeployqt must be the app bundle.
>
> Trying this command I get a:
> *ERROR: no file at "/opt/local/lib/libz.1.dylib"*
> *ERROR: no file at "/opt/local/lib/libz.1.dylib"*
> *ERROR: no file at "/opt/local/lib/libz.1.dylib"*
> *ERROR: no file at "/opt/local/lib/libz.1.dylib"*
>
>
> To fix that I run the script on the answer here:
> http://qt-project.org/forums/viewthread/50118 (Obs: It works only if I
> run the script after generates the app bundle)
>
> Then I've to rebuild my app, and add the -executable option to macdeployqt
>
> And then I can have a working .dmg... but now complaining that it can't
> find the sqlite driver can't be loaded... now I'm digging into how it finds
> the sqlite driver.
>
> Em Mon Feb 09 2015 at 6:16:06 PM, Nuno Santos <nunosantos at imaginando.pt>
> escreveu:
>
> Daniel,
>>
>> To deploy a Mac OSX Qt Quick app do the following:
>>
>> Imagine that your build was made to /tmp/build_YOUR_APP_NAME_clang
>> _64_Release
>>
>> cd /tmp
>> /PATH_TO_YOUR_QT/clang_64/bin/macdeployqt -qmldir=/path_to_your_app_source
>> YOUR_APP_NAME.app
>>
>> You need to run macdeployqt with the qmldir option, specifying the path
>> of your qml files. This way, macdeployqt will analyse your qml source files
>> and copy the respective plugins to the bundle.
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Nuno
>>
>> On 09 Feb 2015, at 16:46, Daniel França <daniel.franca at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hi guys,
>> I know the subject is a little rude, but 2 years ago I'd a lot of
>> problems trying to deploy an app to OS X, as you can see here:
>> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/20895398/cant-deplo
>> y-qt-5-2-quick-app-to-mac-osx
>>
>> You can see people with similar problems: http://qt-project.or
>> g/forums/viewthread/48391
>> http://qt-project.org/forums/viewthread/50118
>>
>> The solutions usually involves some custom script/app/macdeployqt.
>>
>> Anyway, at that time I was able to deploy, but it sucked.
>> Now, 2 years later and with the fresh new Qt5.4, I'm again deploying Qt
>> to OSX and I faced similar problems.
>> Which led me to the question: Is anyone looking on that? Or am I doing
>> something terrible wrong?
>>
>> I can't image that in 2 years no one cared about deployment on OSX.
>>
>> Any feedback is welcome.
>>
>> Best,
>> Daniel
>>
>>
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