[Interest] Official linuxdeployqt ?

[Benjamin TERRIER]

On Mon, 8 Aug 2022 at 18:10, Scott Bloom <scott at towel42.com> wrote:

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> On Mon, 8 Aug 2022 at 08:10, Jörg Bornemann <joerg.bornemann at qt.io> wrote:
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> On 8/4/22 19:42, Scott Bloom wrote:
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> > Is there a Qt supported linuxdeployqt comparable to the windeployqt?
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> > I found the 3^rd party version, but the command line args are very
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> Mitch already pointed you to QTBUG-74940.  The biggest question
> regarding a linuxdeployqt is: what exactly is the deployment format
> going to be?  There's no standard way of deploying Linux applications.
> There are many.
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> The community contributions create AppImage packages.  That seems to be
> a reasonable choice.  Other opinions?
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> It seems to me that how a Qt app is actually packaged/deployed is
> out-of-scope of a linuxdeployqt tool.
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> It seems macdeployqt actually build bundles, but windeployqt just copy
> files next to the .exe file.
> IMHO a linuxdeployqt should just copy files, like windeployqt. Given the
> number of way to package apps under Linux, the actual packaging should be
> left to other tools.
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> BR
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> Benjamin
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> Honestly, I would prefer a different option all together.
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> I would like to be able to give the tool a shared library or an
> executable, and it returns a JSON stream of data.
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> Where the data would include any runtime dependencies + any other Qt
> dynamically bound package files with their appropriate directories.
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> Then the user (or cmake function) could read in the data, and copy or
> build the bundle as necessary.
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> Having the option to “list” the data vs “copy and build” the
> bundle/application directory would give a very powerful resultant tool
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> As to “how to package” linux, honestly I would assume it would just copy
> the files into the correct location relative to the executable/shared
> library sent in.
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> Scott
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windeployqt does have --list and --json options
I never used them, but they should be able to provide exactly what you
described.

Benjamin
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