These are instructions to create the Installer Framework == Build == To build an installer, it is advised to use a statically linked Qt. == Qt configuration under Windows == adjust the qmake.conf to have a real stand alone working installer (at the moment we are using msvc2005, but it should work with msvc2008 as well) --- a/mkspecs/win32-msvc20XX/qmake.conf +++ b/mkspecs/win32-msvc20XX/qmake.conf MAKEFILE_GENERATOR = MSVC.NET TEMPLATE = app -CONFIG += qt warn_on release incremental flat link_prl precompile_header autogen_precompile_source copy_dir_files debug_and_release debug_and_release_target embed_manifest_dll embed_manifest_exe +CONFIG += qt warn_on release incremental flat link_prl precompile_header autogen_precompile_source copy_dir_files debug_and_release debug_and_release_target QT += core gui DEFINES += UNICODE WIN32 QT_LARGEFILE_SUPPORT QMAKE_COMPILER_DEFINES += _MSC_VER=1400 WIN32 QMAKE_YACCFLAGS = -d QMAKE_CFLAGS = -nologo -Zm200 -Zc:wchar_t- QMAKE_CFLAGS_WARN_ON = -W3 QMAKE_CFLAGS_WARN_OFF = -W0 -QMAKE_CFLAGS_RELEASE = -O2 -MD -QMAKE_CFLAGS_RELEASE_WITH_DEBUGINFO += -O2 -MD -Zi -QMAKE_CFLAGS_DEBUG = -Zi -MDd +QMAKE_CFLAGS_RELEASE = -O2 -MT +QMAKE_CFLAGS_RELEASE_WITH_DEBUGINFO += -O2 -MT -Zi +QMAKE_CFLAGS_DEBUG = -Zi -MTd QMAKE_CFLAGS_YACC = QMAKE_CFLAGS_LTCG = -GL Recommended configure options for windows: configure.exe -opensource -release -static -no-multimedia -no-declarative -no-phonon -no-dbus -no-opengl -no-qt3support -no-webkit -no-xmlpatterns -nomake examples -nomake demos Recommended configure options for Linux and MacOS: configure -opensource -release -static -qt-zlib -qt-libtiff -qt-libpng -qt-libmng -qt-libjpeg -no-phonon -no-dbus -no-opengl -no-qt3support -no-webkit -no-xmlpatterns -no-svg -nomake examples -nomake demos == Create an Installer == To create an installer, use bin/binarycreator. The create-test-installer batch files run it for the example project: in windows; cd tests\test-installer create-test-installer.bat in unix; cd tests/test-installer create-test-installer.sh NOTE: Under MacOS you have to copy the dir $QTDIR/src/gui/mac/qt_menu.nib to /Resources/qt_menu.nib. for example: cp -r ../../qt4/src/gui/mac/qt_menu.nib ./test-installer-offline.app/Contents/Resources This creates an installer "test-installer-offline"/"test-installer-online" and the components required by the com.nokia.testapp package(examples\testapp\packages\com.nokia.testapp) in the bin folder. == Create an Archive == To create an 7zip archive named qt-copy.7z that contains the directory qt-copy use: cd /path/where/qt-copy/is/located 7z a -t7z -mx=9 -ms=off -l qt-copy.7z qt-copy