Release folder - 1 .exe file only

[schnitzel]

release and debug folders are just 'working' folders, i.e. they contain files that are created throughout the preprocess/compilation/linking stages.

It would be a good exercise to learn how make files work.

Once your executable is done building and you want to deploy your app, you typically copy it to some other place (together with all dll's it needs, such as Qt core/gui dll's). Object files are generally not deployed with an application.

[Swankee]

release and debug folders are just 'working' folders, i.e. they contain files that are created throughout the preprocess/compilation/linking stages.

It would be a good exercise to learn how make files work.

Once your executable is done building and you want to deploy your app, you typically copy it to some other place (together with all dll's it needs, such as Qt core/gui dll's). Object files are generally not deployed with an application.

I'll continue to read on make files

So does that mean you cannot package the QT core files and your generated exe into one distributable exe? How can I keep things clean for distribution?

[schnitzel]

that depends on what you mean by 'clean'

you should read the following:

http://doc.qt.nokia.com/4.6/deployment.html

[squidge]

Yes, you can do that. If you want a single file, you'll have to recompile Qt, and read the license agreement. Single file distributions are under different conditions than exe+dll distributions.

[john_god]

A standalone exe file requires Qt to be build statically, you can find how to do this in the wiki, althought you would have to have a comercial license to deploy it like that (search this forum cause there are some good post's about license models). if you just playing with Qt, for non comercial aplications, is better to keep Qt dinamically linked, and use some deployment software, like InstallCreator, or other like that, that will join exe and the dlls in a setup file, easely distributed.

[Swankee]

A standalone exe file requires Qt to be build statically, you can find how to do this in the wiki, althought you would have to have a comercial license to deploy it like that (search this forum cause there are some good post's about license models). if you just playing with Qt, for non comercial aplications, is better to keep Qt dinamically linked, and use some deployment software, like InstallCreator, or other like that, that will join exe and the dlls in a setup file, easely distributed.

Install Creator, good thanks