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Mastering Qt 5

By : Guillaume Lazar, Robin Penea
Book Image

Mastering Qt 5

By: Guillaume Lazar, Robin Penea

Overview of this book

Qt 5.7 is an application development framework that provides a great user experience and develops full-capability applications with Qt Widgets, QML, and even Qt 3D. This book will address challenges in successfully developing cross-platform applications with the Qt framework. Cross-platform development needs a well-organized project. Using this book, you will have a better understanding of the Qt framework and the tools to resolve serious issues such as linking, debugging, and multithreading. Your journey will start with the new Qt 5 features. Then you will explore different platforms and learn to tame them. Every chapter along the way is a logical step that you must take to master Qt. The journey will end in an application that has been tested and is ready to be shipped.
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
Mastering Qt 5
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface

Packaging for Windows


To package a standalone application on Windows, you need to provide all the dependencies of your executable. The gallery-core.dll file, the Qt libraries (for example, Qt5Core.dll), and compiler-specific libraries (for example, libstdc++-6.dll) are some examples of dependencies required by our executable. If you forget to provide a library, an error will be displayed when you run the gallery-desktop.exe program.

Note

On Windows, you can use the utility Dependency Walker (depends). It will give you a list of all libraries required by your application. You can download it here: www.dependencywalker.com.

For this section, we will create a script to build the project via the command line interface. Then we will use the Qt tool windeployqt to gather all dependencies required by our application. This example is for a MinGW compiler but you can easily adapt it for a MSVC compiler.

Here is a list of required files and folders gathered by winqtdeploy, to properly run gallery-desktop...