[Interest] [Development] Qt installation prefix path issue

[Benjamin TERRIER]

Hi,

To get an idea of how patching Qt5 works, one can look at the function
patchQtCore() used in windeployqt.
It will give you an idea of how its done on windows.

http://code.qt.io/cgit/qt/qttools.git/tree/src/windeployqt/utils.cpp#n948

BR,

Benjamin

2017-10-18 9:17 GMT+02:00 Christian Gagneraud <chgans at gmail.com>:
> On 18/10/2017 8:08 pm, "Thiago Macieira" <thiago.macieira at intel.com> wrote:
>
> [moving to the interest mailing list; please drop development@ when
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> On Tuesday, 17 October 2017 23:38:24 PDT bhaskar kotha wrote:
>> How to configure Qt so that Qmake should not take absolute path.
>
> That's not possible. You can't move Qt: you have to decide where it's going
> to
> be the moment you configure.
>
>
> It is actually possible, but it's far from trivial. Boot2qt Yocto SDK is
> doing exactly this.
> I don't have references right now, but the answer is in boot2qt git
> repositories.
>
> Basically you need to patch the binaries after relocation.
>
> Chris
>
>
>
>
> Also, please upgrade to 5.6, 5.9, 5.10. Qt 5.4 is not supported.
>
> --
> Thiago Macieira - thiago.macieira (AT) intel.com
>   Software Architect - Intel Open Source Technology Center
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