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Please review the following information to ensure ** the GNU Free Documentation License version 1.3 requirements ** will be met: https://www.gnu.org/licenses/fdl-1.3.html. ** $QT_END_LICENSE$ ** ****************************************************************************/ /*! \previouspage ifw-overview.html \page ifw-getting-started.html \nextpage ifw-use-cases.html \title Getting Started 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 You can use the Qt Installer Framework to create installers for all platforms supported by \l[QtDoc]{Supported Platforms}{desktop Qt}. The installers have been tested on the following platforms: \list \li Microsoft Windows 7, and later \li Ubuntu Linux 16.04, and later \li macOS 10.12, and later \endlist \section1 Building from Sources 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 Supported Compilers The Qt Installer Framework can be compiled with Microsoft Visual Studio 2013 and newer, GCC 4.7 and newer, and Clang 3.1 and newer. Currently, the tested combination for Windows is Qt 5.12.4 with MSVC 2015. \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. Please read SSL Import and Export Restrictions from http://doc.qt.io/qt-5/ssl.html if you are statically linking against OpenSSL libraries. The supported Qt version is 5.12.7. \section3 Configuring Qt for Windows We recommend that you use the following options when you configure Qt for Windows: \code configure -prefix %CD%\qtbase -release -static -static-runtime -accessibility -no-icu -no-sql-sqlite -no-qml-debug -nomake examples -nomake tests \endcode Build Qt: \code nmake (or 'mingw32-make') module-qtbase module-qtdeclarative module-qttools module-qttranslations module-qtwinextras \endcode \section3 Configuring Qt for Linux We recommend that you use the following configuration options for Linux: \code configure -prefix $PWD/qtbase -release -static -accessibility -qt-zlib -qt-libpng -qt-libjpeg -qt-xcb -qt-pcre -no-glib -no-cups -no-sql-sqlite -no-qml-debug -no-opengl -no-egl -no-xinput2 -no-sm -no-icu -nomake examples -nomake tests -no-libudev \endcode Build Qt: \code make module-qtbase module-qtdeclarative module-qttools module-qttranslations \endcode \section3 Configuring Qt for macOS We recommend that you use the following configuration options for macOS: \code configure -prefix $PWD/qtbase -release -static -no-securetransport -accessibility -qt-zlib -qt-libpng -qt-libjpeg -no-cups -no-sql-sqlite -no-qml-debug -nomake examples -nomake tests -no-freetype \endcode Build Qt: \code make module-qtbase module-qtdeclarative module-qttools module-qttranslations \endcode \section2 Configuring Support for Archive File Formats 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 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. 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. \code qmake CONFIG+=libarchive \endcode \section3 Installing Dependencies for Windows The source archives for the dependencies can be downloaded from: \list \li \l https://tukaani.org/xz/ \li \l https://zlib.net/ \li \l https://www.sourceware.org/bzip2/ \endlist When building the third party libraries with MSVC, make sure to use the same version that you used to build Qt, and that the compiler option used to select the run-time library matches the configuration options for Qt (debug/release, static/dynamic runtime). \section3 Installing Dependencies for Linux The required third party compression libraries are likely available from your distribution's package manager repositories. For example, on Ubuntu 18.04 you can invoke the following to install the development packages containing headers for the libraries: \code sudo apt install zlib1g-dev liblzma-dev libbz2-dev \endcode \section3 Installing Dependencies for macOS The easiest way to install the missing libraries is with a third party package manager solution, like Homebrew or MacPorts. On macOS 10.15 you should only need to additionally install the libiconv and liblzma libraries. On Homebrew this would be: \code brew install libiconv xz \endcode \section3 Troubleshooting For libarchive related compilation errors, you may need to edit the definitions in a configuration header file respective to your platform, which can be found from the 'src/libs/3rdparty/libarchive/config/' directory of the Installer Framework sources. \section2 Setting up Qt Installer Framework \list 1 \li Clone the Qt Installer Framework source code from \l{http://code.qt.io/cgit/installer-framework/installer-framework.git/} to get the sources for the tools. \li Build the tools by running the "qmake" from the static Qt, followed by "make" or "nmake". \endlist \note To contribute patches to Qt Installer Framework, follow the standard Qt processes and guidelines. For more information, see \l{http://wiki.qt.io/Contribute}{Contribute to Qt}. */