Book Image

Mastering Qt 5 - Second Edition

By : Guillaume Lazar, Robin Penea
Book Image

Mastering Qt 5 - Second Edition

By: Guillaume Lazar, Robin Penea

Overview of this book

Qt 5.11 is an app development framework that provides a great user experience and develops full capability applications with Qt Widgets, QML, and even Qt 3D. Whether you're building GUI prototypes or fully-fledged cross-platform GUI applications with a native look and feel, Mastering Qt 5 is your fastest, easiest, and most powerful solution. This book addresses various challenges and teaches you to successfully develop cross-platform applications using the Qt framework, with the help of well-organized projects. Working through this book, you will gain a better understanding of the Qt framework, as well as the tools required to resolve serious issues, such as linking, debugging, and multithreading. You'll start off your journey by discovering the new Qt 5.11 features, soon followed by exploring different platforms and learning to tame them. In addition to this, you'll interact with a gamepad using Qt Gamepad. Each chapter is a logical step for you to complete in order to master Qt. By the end of this book, you'll have created an application that has been tested and is ready to be shipped.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)

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 the compiler-specific libraries (for example, libstdc++-6.dll) are some examples of the 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.

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