hi i am using the QT binarycreator to create an installer for my QT project.
I have my App.dmg and have 7z it using archivegen.
Now i am trying to make the installer as:
~/Qt/QtIFW2.0.1/bin/binarycreator -v --online-only -c config/config.xml -p packages MyAppInstaller.dmg
note: packages folder contains the 7z folder inside packages/myapp/data/myapp.7z
but unfortuntaly it only creates MyAppInstaller.app and NOT MyAppInstaller.dmg as mentioned in the documents.
any ideas why?
I'd upgrade to the latest version of the installer framework if you don't have any reason not to. The new 3.x versions also include the ability to sign dmg packages so they don't show up as unknown application sources.
I had a lot of head scratching with the 2.x versions in QTIFW that the 3.x solved out of the box.
http://blog.qt.io/blog/2018/03/28/qt-installer-framework-3-0-4-released/
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I have apps that I distribute as .pkg files created using pkgbuild and productbuild. With macOS Catalina, this doesn't work any more. The installer complains that I'm trying to install content to the system volume.
I posted three weeks ago thinking the error had to do with bundling a Java runtime. It turns out it has nothing to do with Java.
To test it I have the smallest possible project called Hello with a main window and a button to click. In XCode, I do Product -> Archive, then Distribute App, and Copy App. This creates a directory Hello 2019-12-18 15-01-07 with contents Hello.app. The app works fine. I then
pkgbuild --root *7 Hello.pkg
which creates Hello.pkg.
When I double-click Hello.pkg in the finder the installer presents me with screens for Introduction, Destination Select (only one option is offered), and Installation type ("Standard Install on Macintosh HD"), then asks me for my password. It then says, "This package is incompatible with this version of macOS. The package is trying to install content to the system volume. Contact the software manufacturer for assistance."
It makes no difference if I codesign and notarize. Productbuild only adds one more layer to the failing process.
What am I missing?
We could fix the issue by using the option
--install-location
of the pkgbuild command.
If the
--install-location
option is not used, pkgbuild uses / as the default install location in many cases.
In macOS Catalina, only certain folders are writable. Refer this link for more details.
In our case, the package installation succeeded only when we specified one of the writable folders such as
/usr/local
/opt
/Applications
as the default install location.
I have an application that I built using Qt Creator on Linux and want to deploy it now. However, I don't want to statically build it as I don't want it to be open-sourced. I tried the ldd ./YourExecutable command, however that only lists (and not add) the additional dependencies the application needs in order for it to run. My question is, how do I gather the necessary dependencies without having to individually look for these files? Is there a tool, such as windeployqt.exe on Windows, that I can use on Linux for the same purpose? Or is there a better approach than the one I'm thinking of?
Get Cygwin setup.exe: http://www.cygwin.com/
1.1. Run setup.exe and continue to package selection list.
1.2. Under Devel catagory select tools you need for compiling your source. For
example 'GNU make'.
1.3. Finish installing.
Get linux crosscompilers for cygwin:
"cygwin-gcc-linux.tar.bz2" (68.2 Mb).
md5sum: 340e91a346f5bb17e660db10e43005b8
These compilers are made with crosstool 0.28-rc37. This package contains:
gcc-3.3.4 and gcc-2.95.3 for i386 (glibc 2.1.3) and gcc-3.3.3 for amd64
(glibc 2.3.2).
Note! There is now newer version of GCC avaible with glibc 2.3.2:
"cygwin-gcc-3.3.6-glibc-2.3.2-linux.tar.bz2 (i386, x86_64)".
2.1. Copy 'cygwin-gcc-linux.tar.bz2' to 'c:\cygwin' or install directory which
you selected in setup.exe.
2.2. Open Cygwin shell and change directory to root with 'cd /'.
2.3. Uncompress to Cygwin root with command:
'tar -jxvf cygwin-gcc-linux.tar.bz2'.
Cross-compilers are installed under '/opt/crosstool'. You can use theim
directly or with commands: gcc-linux, g++-linux, gcc-linux-2.95,
g++-linux-2.95, gcc-linux-x86_64 and g++-linux-x86_64.
From: Cross-compiling on Windows for Linux
More info here.
It sounds like you want to use the shared library deployment option:
http://doc.qt.io/qt-5/linux-deployment.html#creating-the-application-package
Then if you wanted to go further than that, you could look into making a .rpm or a .deb .
There are lots of examples of qt projects that are now available on GitHub and have packages made. Usually for prebuilt binaries you need to make one for x86 and a separate one for x64.
Hope that helps.
I'm a newcomer to Qt and I'm having a hard time embedding a web browser control in my application.
When I try to #include <QtWebKit> or #include <QWebView>, the compiler complains that neither of those header files exist. The same goes for QtWebKitWidgets, as well.
When I add QT += webkit or QT += webkitwidgets in my qmake .pro file, I get an error saying Unknown module(s) in QT: webkit.
How do I install these modules / headers so I can use QWebView in my application? (My Qt version is 5.2.1.)
Try to install qtwebkit from repository.
On Ubuntu: sudo apt-get install libqt5webkit5-qmlwebkitplugin libqt5webkit5
On ArchLinux: sudo pacman -S qtwebkit
You may be missing your distro's QtWebKit dev package. Double check that you have the headers. A good command for this is find /usr/include -iname "*qtwebkit*". You should get some files back, one of them should be called QtWebKit, and if you open it in a text editor, you should see the text of the header.
In some distributions, the QtWebKit headers are in a separate package from the base Qt development files. Make sure you have that package installed if applicable. I know that in Arch Linux and Manjaro, the packages you need are qt5-base and qt5-webkit, and if I remember correctly, Debian-based distros (Debian, Ubuntu, Linux Mint, etc) call those packages qtbase5-dev and libqt5webkit5-dev.
If you are missing the package and need help finding it for your distribution, you can try asking over on SuperUser.
I want to release my project written with Qt to a Ubuntu / Linux user. If they try to execute the build release version they get this error message, because they have not installed Qt:
error while loading shared libraries: libQt5Widgets.so.5:
cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
Is there a way to add all the libraries such as libQt5Widgets.so.5 to the folder where the executable is, just like under Windows with qt.conf, where you can specify the Plugins folder?
Try this
sudo apt-get install libqt5widgets5
One solution could be:
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/path/to/dir/with/libs:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH
But a proper solution would be to install QT libraries in system and/or package your app for Ubuntu (in your case).
I had recently updated the Android tools via the SDK manager when I saw this error.
Re-install the SDK tools to fix. That is what worked for my machine.
It may be simplest to package the project using Ubuntu's package management system. The Qt dependency will then be automatically installed by the package manager when your project is installed. That'd be the best way to go about it, as long as there is a version of Qt 5 available in Ubuntu's package repository. It'll save you a whole lot of grief.
I downloaded the sdk (3.0a1). According to cocos2d-x guide, I have to run the create-multi-platform-projects.py command in order to create a project, but the script doesn't exist in the package I have downloaded.
The guide says
Note: These instructions are only valid for cocos2d-x v3.0-alpha0 or newer
So I suppose that I have downloaded the right package (windows 8.0 64bit).
The script has been moved to tools/project-creator/ and renamed to create_project.py. You can use the script the same way like
./create_project.py -p MyGame123 -k com.MyCompany.AwesomeGame -l cpp