Hi all,
I assume you, too, have done this process. If so please guide me.
I finished my app and ran it in both Debug and Release modes. And then made a folder named Cal on my desktop and brought the .exe file from the Release folder and put that .exe plus some .dll files onto it so that made it executable.
My machine is a win 7 x64 and use Qt Creator 5.7.
My Cal folder is on this path: C:\Users\ME\Desktop\Cal
And the Debug and Release folders are on this path: C:\Users\ME\Documents\Qt
My purpose as the title says, is making the app installable to send it to others and be sure that it will be installed on their Windows machines as well.
For this, I was advised to see and follow this Docs:
http://doc.qt.io/qt-5/deployment.html
I read the first page and until now I have a question. It says: "All you need to do is to build Qt and your application in release mode..."
Building the application means running it (because when we run some app it first will be built then run), but what does "building Qt" mean? Is Qt build-able!?
After reading that page I went for the next Qt For Windows page there:
http://doc.qt.io/qt-5/windows-deployment.html
I found the windeployqt.exe file in this path: C:\Qt\Qt5.7.0\5.7\mingw53_32\bin\windeployqt.exe
Now I'm at the beginning of the dark cadre on how to use that executable file.
It says: "The simplest way to use windeployqt is to add the bin directory of your Qt
installation (e.g. <QT_DIR\bin>) to the PATH variable and then run:
windeployqt <path-to-app-binary>"
Does it mean I should run that .exe file from some folder's path (say, the Release or Cal folder)?
Have I gone the way right?
Thank you.
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