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diff --git a/doc/installerfw-getting-started.qdoc b/doc/installerfw-getting-started.qdoc index f1adabbdc..6841ae91b 100644 --- a/doc/installerfw-getting-started.qdoc +++ b/doc/installerfw-getting-started.qdoc @@ -112,26 +112,29 @@ make module-qtbase module-qtdeclarative module-qttools module-qttranslations \endcode - \section2 Configuring Support for Archive File Formats + \section2 Third Party Dependencies The Qt Installer Framework sources contain a redistribution of parts of the libarchive compression and archive library, which requires you to link against additional libraries; \c liblzma, \c zlib, \c libbzip2, and on macOS, \c libiconv. - The usage of libarchive is optional and can be enabled by adding the libarchive + The usage of libarchive is recommended and can be enabled by adding the libarchive configuration feature to the list of values specified by the \c CONFIG variable. Installers created with this configuration support the (de)compression of 7zip, zip, and tar archive files, with gzip, bzip2, and xz as available compression methods. + \code + qmake CONFIG+=libarchive + \endcode + The \c IFW_ZLIB_LIBRARY, \c IFW_BZIP2_LIBRARY, \c IFW_LZMA_LIBRARY, and \c IFW_ICONV_LIBRARY variables can be used to specify the exact library files if required. - If you omit the feature, the installation of the additional dependencies can be skipped, - but created installers will only support the 7zip format. + If you omit the feature, the builtin LZMA SDK library will be used as a fallback and + installation of the additional dependencies can be skipped, but created installers will + only support the 7zip format. - \code - qmake CONFIG+=libarchive - \endcode + \note Building IFW with LZMA SDK is deprecated and may not be available in future versions. \section3 Installing Dependencies for Windows |