[Qt-interest] Release questions

[R. Reucher]

Paul England wrote:

> Howdy
> 
> Going to release a Windows binary for the first time.
> After reading the below link, it tells me I need to build Qt statically.
> http://doc.trolltech.com/4.3/deployment-windows.html
You're hopefully using at least Qt 4.5, or better 4.7 now :). And no, you 
don't need to rebuild it statically. You can redistribute the required Qt 
DLLs -- and when you're using the open source license (which I assume) you 
have to build the DLLs from source.

This is at least my understanding so far... and that's what I do with my 
apps on Windows.

> I didn't build Qt -- I installed it from the binary.  When I do qmake
> -configure release and then rebuild, it rebuilds (w/o any DLLs in the
> release subdir) and the binary doesn't run.  So, I'll go out on a limb
> and say that my Qt installing isn't static.  Is my only option to
> rebuild from source?
Yes and no (see above).

> Question 2:
> Same deal w/ Mac.  I installed from binary, but want to release a
> bundle.  Do I need to rebuild Qt from source?
No. Install the framework and get used to macdeployqt...

HTH, René
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René Reucher
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