On 02/19/2015 02:09 AM, Jason Kretzer wrote: > Good day all! > > I am seeking recommendations for an installer (does not have to be free) > program that I can use to deploy a Qt Application(5.3) and compiled with > VS2010 to Windows 7. I am not sure of all the variety of packages out > there but am generally seeking: > > 1.)Can create an .exe or .msi which can install the application at a > certain location > > 2.)Can update a pre-installed version of the application with a new > version (in some fashion) > > 3.)Can check for pre-requisites and either package them or download and > install them (in some fashion) such as MSVC++ 2010 Redistributables, etc. > > 4.)Can potentially read/write the registry and ask for proper > permissions to do so
I used NSIS for a long time, mostly because it integrates very nicely with CPack. But when I switched this project to qmake, I switched the installer to wix, and I'm very happy with this decision. It took quite a long time to do the first version of the installer in a way that works, can update, integrates nicely with my qmake build etc. But now it's easy to modify. My setup works by creating an installer directory for release builds. I copy all the necessary Qt libraries and plugins to this dir on the qmake run, use the qmake substitution to create a wix include file with version info and a couple of other tricks. If you are interested in the full recipe of this, I can write a full description about it on my blog. Bo Thorsen, Director, Viking Software. -- Viking Software Qt and C++ developers for hire http://www.vikingsoft.eu _______________________________________________ Interest mailing list Interest@qt-project.org http://lists.qt-project.org/mailman/listinfo/interest
