[Interest] Qt installer framework problems linux

[Koehne Kai]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: interest-bounces+kai.koehne=theqtcompany.com at qt-project.org
> Subject: [Interest] Qt installer framework problems linux
> 
> Hi there,
> 
> So I am trying to build a linux installer for my QT application. I downloaded
> the latest version of QT (5.4.1) and built QT statically using the configuration
> described in the INSTALL file in the installer-framework repository's root
> directory. The installer-framework also built just fine and my application's
> installer built when I ran the binary creator tool. However, when I deployed
> the installer to a clean Ubuntu 12.04 machine, I get the following warning and
> the fonts in the installer appear as just boxes. Do you know how I could fix
> this problem? Thanks!
> 
> [4] Warning: QFontDatabase: Cannot find font directory
> /home/eferguso/Qt/5.4/Src/qtbase/lib/fonts - is Qt installed correctly?
[...]
> Support enabled for:
>   Accessibility .......... yes
>   ALSA ................... no
>   CUPS ................... no
>   Evdev .................. yes
>   FontConfig ............. no

Make sure you have fontconfig  developer libs available (probably libfontconfig1-dev).

This way you'll get an additional dependency to the fontconfig lib, but you can use the system fonts.

Regards

Kai