[Qt-interest] Deploy Application on Windows

[Thiago Macieira]

David Ching wrote:
>What some library makers have done (e.g. the CodeJock MFC library on
>Windows), is they don't bundle any pre-built library.  Instead, they
> have a nice installer package that scans the user's PC for installed
> versions of Visual Studio and ASKS THE USER which of these to support.
>  As well as what options they want such as do they want static or
> dynamic libraries?  Then it builds the libraries for the user's
> preference.

You're describing the configure.exe program. It builds exactly what you 
have. The complaint people have is about the need to build: it takes 
several hours to do that if you don't have a compile farm available to you 
(like Incredibuild on Windows).

> This would be simple for Nokia to implement.  Already you
> have most of that with the Configure app. You just need to add a nice
> installer to specify the right command-line options and run it.

So you want a GUI program that will generate the proper command-line?

For one thing, we already have two configure applications to maintain (one 
Unix script and one Windows binary). Adding a third is not a very tempting 
option for us.

However, it does sound like a nice community project.

-- 
Thiago Macieira - thiago.macieira (AT) nokia.com
  Senior Product Manager - Nokia, Qt Software
      Sandakerveien 116, NO-0402 Oslo, Norway
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