I wouldn't recommend the Qt Installer Framework, due to its complexity
and some problematic features. It's targeted at installing Qt, but can
be a PITA for projects with a different apporach:
On Windows it always creates registry entries pointing at the
(automagically generated) uninstaller. You cannot disable this. This is
especially problematic i.e. if you have a collection of independent
packages (maybe the same library in different versions or different
libraies taht all should go into the same directory) and dont want to
ship them all in the same installer, but one package per installer. Qt
IFW doesn't allow installing into a directory that already has an
uninstaller of anothzer package in it. Deleting an uninstaller does not
remove the registry entry, and finding ist manually or using a script is
basically impossible as it creates an unknown UUID key in the registry,
that you cannot get ahold of while installing the package.
Another problem is, that unassisted installations without UI (i.e. on a
remote machine without an X-Server) are not possible, but I guess
that's only a problem on non-Windows systems.
Also Qt IFW has a kinda backwards approach to installation steps: you
actively have to remove steps/UIs you dont want to use, instead of
adding those you actually want to use.
For Qt itself it may be great, for other (differentyl structured)
projects it's often not worth the hassle.
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Am 21.04.2020 um 09:36 schrieb Dmitriy Purgin:
Hello Alexander,
you could try Qt Installer Framework:
https://doc.qt.io/qtinstallerframework/index.html
Cheers
Dmitriy
On Tue, Apr 21, 2020 at 9:20 AM "Alexander Carôt"
<alexander_ca...@gmx.net <mailto:alexander_ca...@gmx.net>> wrote:
Hello all,
I consider shipping my Qt built software with a conventional
installer on Windows.
Can anyone give me a recommendation of a solid freeware for this
purpose ?
Thanks in advance,
best
Alex
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