Third Party tool for deploy Qt Application on Mac?

[vishal.chauhan]

Hi All,

I m working on qt 4.2.2 on Mac.
I have an application developed in qt and I want to deploy this on a Mac system which doesnot have Qt Installed.
I have tried the method by static linking but then I donot have the Image Support then I tried by using Bundle of application but nothing goes my way.

Now I want to ask Is there any third party tool available that takes the needed library at the time of creating bundle and the install the neeed lib to there respective position.


If any body knows then plzzz help me out.

Thanks.

[patrik08]

Hi All,

I m working on qt 4.2.2 on Mac.
I have an application developed in qt and I want to deploy this on a Mac system which doesnot have Qt Installed.
I have tried the method by static linking but then I donot have the Image Support then I tried by using Bundle of application but nothing goes my way.

Now I want to ask Is there any third party tool available that takes the needed library at the time of creating bundle and the install the neeed lib to there respective position.


If any body knows then plzzz help me out.

Thanks.

Image support gif tif jpg run only on not -static...

have a look on....

http://qtforum.de/forum/viewtopic.php?t=4123

[Brandybuck]

I have a script here on the wiki that may help: http://wiki.qtcentre.org/index.php?t...loyment_Script

[patrik08]

I have a script here on the wiki that may help: http://wiki.qtcentre.org/index.php?t...loyment_Script

Super!.. and how paste plugin qt-tif from 4.3 beta in to bundle?

install_name_tool can not activate plugin inside the bundle why?

I append on main all path ... && supported image format dont have tif.... only png

#  on main.cpp
#if defined Q_WS_MAC
QStringList path;
path.append(QApplication::applicationDirPath());
QDir dir(QApplication::applicationDirPath());
dir.cdUp();
path.append(dir.absolutePath());
dir.cd("plugins");
path.append(dir.absolutePath());
dir.cdUp();
path.append(dir.absolutePath());
QApplication::setLibraryPaths(path);
QDir::setCurrent(dir.absolutePath());   /* here down -> Frameworks */
#endif

#  on main.cpp
#if defined Q_WS_MAC
QStringList path;
path.append(QApplication::applicationDirPath());
QDir dir(QApplication::applicationDirPath());
dir.cdUp();
path.append(dir.absolutePath());
dir.cd("plugins");
path.append(dir.absolutePath());
dir.cdUp();
path.append(dir.absolutePath());
QApplication::setLibraryPaths(path);
QDir::setCurrent(dir.absolutePath());   /* here down -> Frameworks */
#endif

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[Brandybuck]

install_name_tool can not activate plugin inside the bundle why?

I don't know. I don't use plugins much, and so I haven't run into this problem yet. I'll need to update my script for plugins one of these days.

[giandrea77]

Hi

great script, but I've a question. After script executin why i can't start the process from my dev machine? It works correctly on some other Mac.

thanks,
Andrea

[ayoy]

Hi,

Image support gif tif jpg run only on not -static...

Well, it's not 100% true. You can get support for images by compiling required plugins when building a statically linked Qt. This can be done by e.g.:

./configure -static -qt-gif -qt-libtiff -qt-libpng -qt-libmng -qt-libjpeg

Then, you have to manually specify the plugins you want to use in the project file, e.g.:

QTPLUGIN += qjpeg qgif

QTPLUGIN += qjpeg qgif

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and load them in main.cpp:

Q_IMPORT_PLUGIN(qjpeg)
Q_IMPORT_PLUGIN(qgif)
 
int main( int argc, char **argv )
{
  QApplication app( argc, argv );
...

Q_IMPORT_PLUGIN(qjpeg)
Q_IMPORT_PLUGIN(qgif)

int main( int argc, char **argv )
{
  QApplication app( argc, argv );
...

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Not very convenient, but works for me. Creates a universal binary that can be used across "dev" and "non-dev" Macs. The plugins have to be disabled when building with shared Qt, so I typically create a small patch file, and use it to amend the code for deployment builds.