[Qt-jambi-interest] Using the system qt4 libs

[Erwin Mueller]

On Tuesday 04 August 2009 20:27:01 Eskil Abrahamsen Blomfeldt wrote:
> Erwin Mueller wrote:
> > How should I then deploy the finished application on the end user system?
> > Should I compile Qt Jambi with all possible Qt-styles (Oxygen, Phase,
> > Plastic, Cleanlooks, etc) and deploy it the Qt Jambi way? I can't ask the
> > user to compile Qt Jambi against his Qt4 system libraries, can I?
>
> Hi, Erwin.
>
> As I see it, there are three ways of doing this. You either have to
> bundle the binaries that you plan to use, or the Linux distribution will
> have to distribute Qt Jambi as a prebuilt package which is guaranteed to
> work with the other libraries on the system. The third way is to check
> how the Qt versions are configured on the different Linux distributions.
> You might get away with building Qt Jambi against a Qt version which has
> a typical build configuration, and then distributing this with your
> application. That would probably give you compatibility on at least a
> great part of the Linux distributions out there.
>
> > If I ask the user to compile Qt Jambi against his Qt4 system libraries,
> > then the user need first to install all necessary -dev packages?
>
> Yes, anything required to build Qt Jambi will have to be installed on
> the platform where you plan to build the package.
>
> -- Eskil

I see, thank you very much. So I think the 'Linux-way' would be to build the 
deb and the rpm packages for Qt Jambi for each distribution I like to support. 
For that I need to compile Qt Jambi against each version of Qt. For example, 
one for Ubuntu against Qt-Libs-Ubuntu, one for Debian against Qt-Libs-Debian, 
one for Fedora against Qt-Libs-Fedora, and so on.

Of course it would be much easier if there were packages for the distributions 
in it's repositories already, but I guess Qt Jambi is not so widely used.

Thank you again, Erwin.