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

[Pau Garcia i Quiles]

> 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.

Easiest way to do this: distribute the Qt DLLs and plugins along with
your application. Place QtCore4.dll, QtGui4.dll, etc where your .exe
is. Windows will search there first. Just make sure the manifests are
right if building with VC++2005 or newer, both for your application
and for Qt DLLs.

>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.

That's probably because the installer compresses those 2GB into a few
hundred MB. Take the 'bin' and 'plugins' directories and zip them.

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Pau Garcia i Quiles
http://www.elpauer.org
(Due to my workload, I may need 10 days to answer)