On Apr 11, 2013, at 9:48 AM, 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, > -- > Sergio Ahumada > Release Engineer - Digia, Qt
This has changed since the Qt 4 days then. All of this is very helpful BUT is the same information available for Qt 4? We use Qt 4.8.4 and are not ready to move to Qt 5 yet. Since I am not building WebKit looks like my life might actually be easier making the installer. Thanks Mike Jackson _______________________________________________ Interest mailing list Interest@qt-project.org http://lists.qt-project.org/mailman/listinfo/interest
