[Qt-interest] How to create a custom Qt Installer from VS compiled Qt.

Dave Smith dave at thesmithfam.org
Wed Mar 10 19:09:32 CET 2010


Michael Jackson wrote:
  > I would like to distribute a custom built Qt ( I don't need qt43 
support,
> QtWebkit, SQL Drivers and a few other things) in self contained installer
> that supports installing Qt to where ever it is the customer wants. I Have
> customers that can NOT write to their "C" drive at all. I have customers
> that don't have admin privs and so need a local install in their home
> directory. I can certainly build Qt but the folder bloats up to over 2GB in
> size where as the installer from Nokia is only a few hundred MB in size.
> That is what I want.
> 
> 
> Thanks, I'll take a look at InstallAnywhere prices.

I think you want NSIS. I believe that's what the Qt install uses (just 
based on how it looks, no real data).

That's what I use to distribute my Qt /apps/, but I've never distributed 
re-built Qt binaries myself. However, I think that NSIS would be the 
easiest and cheapest way to do that.

--Dave



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