[Qt-interest] Creating installer for Qt 4.5 based application on windows

[Christopher Rasch-Olsen Raa]

On Tuesday 10 November 2009 14:12:18 Manish Chakravarty wrote:
> Hey ,
> 
> I have created a Qt application ( I develop primarily on MacOS )
> I have a windows VM where I build/test the app for windows.
> 
> The app is now ready and I have to now ship the application to the
>  customer. I want to package the application and distribute it with an
>  installer. What would be the quickest/nicest approach for this?
> 
> I've already gone through
> http://doc.trolltech.com/4.5/deployment-windows.html#application-dependenci
> esand it doesnt help me much :(
> I'm facing a problems similar to
> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/622418/how-to-deploy-a-qt-application
> http://qt.nokia.com/developer/faqs/why-does-a-statically-built-qt-use-the-d
> ynamic-visual-studio-runtime-libraries-do-i-need-to-deploy-those-with-my-ap
> plicationalso does not seem to help much.
> 
> What approaches do you use and which one(s) would you recommend?
> 

Link dynamicly and wrap it all in an installer created with eg. NSIS, BitRock 
or something similar? Works pretty well for us here.

-- 
Christopher