preparing program for release

[impeteperry]

Thanks for the reply,
It seems to me that I read where there is a Line or lines that I can add to the foo.pro file thal qmake will put all the libraries and othe stuff in the "exe" file so the program doesn't need Qt libraries installed to run. I don't know if I want to install it or not at this time

Thanks

[dimitri]

Then you need to link statically with the Qt libraries. First build Qt 4 as static library (configure -static).

Also read Deploying Applications on Unix/X11. it was written for Qt 3 but the idea is there.

[Brandybuck]

Also read Deploying Applications on Unix/X11. it was written for Qt 3 but the idea is there.

That article has been updated and is now part of the Qt 4 documentation:
http://doc.trolltech.com/4.1/deployment-x11.html

[elcuco]

There is an open source tool called "auto package" which provides something similar to install shield. I have never used it for packaging, but when I used programs packaged this way, I found it very interesting.

I can also recommend the systems used to distribute Quake4 and Doom3, but I forgot it's name