[Qt-interest] From one computer to another

Scott Bloom scott.bloom at onshorecs.com
Fri Jul 23 11:22:01 CEST 2010


>> On Fri, 23 Jul 2010 07:05:22 +0400, Rohan McGovern <rohan.mcgovern at nokia.com>
>> wrote:
>> 
>>> Andrey 'ABacus' Bondarenko said:
>>>> I have compiled Qt 4.7.0 beta2 on the computer in my office. Then I brought
>>>> package to the home machine. But it doesn't work. Do I have to recompile Qt
>>>> on every machine I want to use?
>>>> 
>>> 
>>> You didn't say which OS you're using.
>> 
>> The OS is the same on both machines: Windows Vista.
>> 
>>> A basic limitation of most platforms is that the destination path is
>>> embedded into the produced binaries.  That means that you would have to
>>> put Qt on your home machine in the exact same path that you used on your
>>> office machine (or try to patch the binaries like the installer does -
>>> not recommended).
>> 
>> So I have to recompile :(
> 
> Only if you can't use the same build path on your work and home
> machine...
I always build to c:\Qt\qt-opensource-4.X.X or whatever the zip file
extracted to..

Then I zip of the qt-* dir, delete the intermediate files and it works
perfect on every machien

Scott




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