[Interest] Packaging a Qt App for Linux/MacOSX/Windows

[Scapegoat Sarthak]

I am curious - if you have your project configured in c++/cmake style, you
can (and probably should) use CPack. Lots of documentation available online.

On 18 June 2016 at 01:17, Ch'Gans <chgans at gna.org> wrote:

> On 18 June 2016 at 00:19, Ch'Gans <chgans at gna.org> wrote:
> > Hi there,
> >
> > I've recently added a (very basic) offline installer to my project
> > using the Qt installer framework and i'm looking for a multi platform
> > solution to detect my app dependencies and to ship (some of) them into
> > my installer.
> > Ideally I would like to automate this...
> >
> > The following pages gives lot of hints and advices:
> > http://doc.qt.io/qt-5/osx-deployment.html
> > http://doc.qt.io/qt-5/linux-deployment.html
> > http://doc.qt.io/qt-5/windows-deployment.html
>
> These 3 links +
> http://lists.qt-project.org/pipermail/qbs/2015-July/001321.html gives
> enough information to digest. Basically, you have to do everything
> manually, but at least it's doable and not that difficult (I now have
> my installer working correctly for Linux, next step is Windows).
>
> Another source of information I found useful is the qbs scripts within
> QtCreator itself. These, plus checking how QtCreator is installed on
> the target OS help understand what has to be done and how it can be
> done.
>
> Also, worth mentioning, Qbs JIRA Epic "Support for creating
> redistributable installer packages":
> https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/QBS-16
>
> Chris
>
> >
> > Some of the tricks in there rely on qmake features, but unfortunately
> > I'm using Qbs...
> >
> > Does anyone has any recommendation, tools, examples, magic scripts, or
> > other useful stuff to point out?
> >
> > Thanks for sharing,
> > Chris
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