[Interest] To rpath or not when building Qt

[Michael Jackson]

On Mar 11, 2015, at 5:56 AM, Bo Thorsen <bo at vikingsoft.eu> wrote:

> Den 10-03-2015 kl. 20:07 skrev Scott Aron Bloom:
>> 
>> When building Qt for distribution via LGPL of a closed source product 
>> using shared libraries.
>> 
>> What is the best method to make sure the plugins pickup the Qt 
>> libraries you are shipping?
>> 
> 
> In this case you mean this as a help to the user, right? That he can 
> just start the application and then it works.
> 
> The usual approach on unix based systems is to ship a script that runs 
> the executable with the proper library path set. This way you can 
> support multiple install locations which rpath can't do.
> 
> Bo.
> 
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Are the binaries that Qt ships for LINUX built this way? I used the "offline" installer for Qt 5.4.1 and I can not seem to make a distribution of my application. (Asked on another thread). Some blogs seem to hint at adjusting the path during the packaging process.

Thanks
Mike Jackson