On 04/11/2013 03:48 PM, Sergio Ahumada wrote:
> On 04/11/2013 03:32 PM, Michael Jackson wrote:
>> Branching from the current discussion thread of "[Interest] Oops! Somebody's 
>> got a bad case of dependency bloat!" there is another way that I could solve 
>> a problem for all the custom builds that I need and that would be to be able 
>> to actually build the an installer from my custom build. So instead of 
>> downloading the prebuilts (which do not meet my needs), attempting to 
>> compile but cant because the tools can not be installed on my collaborators 
>> computers, why can I NOT create the installer?
>>
>> Here is the scenario. I have a machine with lots of Windows Virtual Machines 
>> that I _do_ have control over. I can install Perl and what ever else is 
>> needed. I match my environment as closely as possible to my collaborators 
>> computers (VS Versions, Windows Versions, ect). I am perfectly willing to do 
>> all the builds that I need for our project for the various versions of VS we 
>> use. If I can do my builds and create the installer package I can simply 
>> hand that to my collaborators and say "Here install this. it works.".
>>
>> But alas, the installer is some black magic proprietary solution that 
>> doesn't want to be given out. The main important thing about the installer 
>> is the ability to adjust the paths in the Qt Libraries during the 
>> installation.
>
> It's all opensource and public, as far as I know.
>
> https://qt.gitorious.org/qtsdk/qtsdk/trees/master/release-tools/
> https://qt.gitorious.org/installer-framework/installer-framework/
>
>> Is it possible to build the installer package from my own custom build?
>
> http://qt-project.org/wiki/Building-Qt-Package
>
> http://download.qt-project.org/official_releases/prebuilt/
>
> Cheers,
>

this is Qt5 of course .. I saw you are using -no-qt3support so it might 
not suit you at all

-- 
Sergio Ahumada
Release Engineer - Digia, Qt
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