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| author | Kai Koehne <kai.koehne@digia.com> | 2014-06-04 17:22:54 +0200 |
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| committer | Kai Koehne <kai.koehne@digia.com> | 2014-06-05 16:58:30 +0200 |
| commit | b33d3a9e914c0f90302253f5e301a6bb5480b5c2 (patch) | |
| tree | 4e5fdc95e98c1c5c650bbfadb2cef3dab453cb5b /doc | |
| parent | be18e0488b5c867a4c63f21a2fa8dd842219f354 (diff) | |
Improve documentation on how to build the Installer Framework
Make it clear that you only need to build Qt statically if you want
to compile the Installer Framework on your own.
Change-Id: I45555679197e2cb7143934e9e37ac5afcb9a71cc
Reviewed-by: Niels Weber <niels.weber@digia.com>
Reviewed-by: Jarek Kobus <jaroslaw.kobus@digia.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'doc')
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/installerfw-getting-started.qdoc | 26 |
1 files changed, 16 insertions, 10 deletions
diff --git a/doc/installerfw-getting-started.qdoc b/doc/installerfw-getting-started.qdoc index 96fdea972..dcca88a91 100644 --- a/doc/installerfw-getting-started.qdoc +++ b/doc/installerfw-getting-started.qdoc @@ -33,9 +33,9 @@ \title Getting Started - Qt Installer Framework is developed as part of the Qt project. Fetch the - sources from Gitorious and build the necessary tools before you start to - create installers for your products. + Qt Installer Framework is developed as part of the Qt project. The + framework itself uses Qt. However, it can be used to install all kind of + applications, including (but not limited to) applications built with Qt. \section1 Supported Platforms @@ -52,13 +52,19 @@ \o Mac OS X 10.6, and later \endlist - \section1 Configuring Qt + \section1 Building from Sources - If you use a statically built Qt to create your installer, you do not have - to deliver Qt libraries, which enables you to distribute the installer as - one package. + The following steps describe how to build the Qt Installer Framework + yourself. You can skip this if you have downloaded a pre-built version + of the framework. - \section2 Configuring Qt for Windows + \section2 Configuring Qt + + If you use a statically built Qt to build the Qt Installer Framework + you do not have to deliver Qt libraries, which enables you to distribute + installers as one file. + + \section3 Configuring Qt for Windows Before running configure you should tweak Qt to statically link in the C runtime library. This can be done by changing the default mkspec of @@ -84,7 +90,7 @@ configure -opensource -release -static -target xp -no-opengl -no-icu -nomake examples -nomake tests -skip qtactiveqt -skip qtlocation -skip qtscript -skip qtsensors \endcode - \section2 Configuring Qt for Linux and Mac OS X + \section3 Configuring Qt for Linux and Mac OS X We recommend that you use the following configuration options for Linux and Mac OS X: @@ -93,7 +99,7 @@ configure -opensource -release -static -accessibility -qt-zlib -qt-libpng -qt-libjpeg -no-opengl -nomake examples -nomake tests -developer-build -skip qtquick1 -skip qtscript -skip qtlocation \endcode - \section1 Setting up Qt Installer Framework + \section2 Setting up Qt Installer Framework \list 1 |