[Interest] [Development] Qt installation prefix path issue

Benjamin TERRIER b.terrier at gmail.com
Wed Oct 25 12:08:29 CEST 2017


That explains why I always end up on clones when I use a search engine... sad.
Sometimes I feel like The Qt Company doesn't totally appreciate the
open source side of Qt.

Anyway it is easier to use Woboq clone, they have nice code browsing
functionalities:
https://code.woboq.org/qt5/qttools/src/windeployqt/utils.cpp.html#_Z11patchQtCoreRK7QStringPS_

2017-10-25 11:55 GMT+02:00 Christian Gagneraud <chgans at gmail.com>:
> On 25/10/17 22:25, Benjamin TERRIER wrote:
>>
>> 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
>
>
> Thank you for that one, it is a different implementation of what I was
> referring to.
>
> My point is now:
>
> Google returns no result because the Qt company refuses to publish its open
> source tools in an open manner: code.qt.io explicitly expresses that it does
> not wish to be indexed by search engines.
>
> Man, any sysadmin listening here?
>
> <joke>If you give me an ssh access, I'll fix the problem.</joke>
>
> Chris
>



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