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| author | Friedemann Kleint <Friedemann.Kleint@qt.io> | 2016-10-19 14:10:03 +0200 |
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| committer | Friedemann Kleint <Friedemann.Kleint@qt.io> | 2016-10-19 16:47:35 +0000 |
| commit | 4a6924782e30dee151ac483c1356aca901b04537 (patch) | |
| tree | b558f761ded1ec407e3e4b362c65ca1cc8ee55b5 | |
| parent | 764bc4cd5020300c526b2e015674943c2c92d112 (diff) | |
Improve windeployqt documentation
Make it a clearer that the tool is intended for the Qt-related
dependencies and mention compiler runtime.
Task-number: QTBUG-56566
Change-Id: Idfa938943c486fc5632510bfe9eba119cbcfc58e
Reviewed-by: Oliver Wolff <oliver.wolff@qt.io>
Reviewed-by: Leena Miettinen <riitta-leena.miettinen@qt.io>
Reviewed-by: Maurice Kalinowski <maurice.kalinowski@qt.io>
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/src/platforms/windows.qdoc | 17 |
1 files changed, 14 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/doc/src/platforms/windows.qdoc b/doc/src/platforms/windows.qdoc index eb66edf70..4e367790d 100644 --- a/doc/src/platforms/windows.qdoc +++ b/doc/src/platforms/windows.qdoc @@ -527,9 +527,10 @@ \section1 The Windows Deployment Tool \target windeployqt The Windows deployment tool is designed to automate the process of creating - a deployable folder containing the dependencies (libraries, QML imports, - plugins, and translations) that are required to run the application from - that folder. It creates a sandbox for \l{Qt for WinRT}{Windows Runtime} + a deployable folder containing the \l{Qt}-related dependencies + (libraries, QML imports, plugins, and translations) required to run + the application from that folder. + It creates a sandbox for \l{Qt for WinRT}{Windows Runtime} or an installation tree for Windows desktop applications, which can be easily bundled into an installation package. @@ -542,6 +543,16 @@ directory. The hardcoded local paths in Qt5Core.dll are furthermore replaced with relative ones. + For Windows desktop applications, the required runtime files for the compiler + are also copied to the deployable folder by default (unless the option + \c --no-compiler-runtime is specified). In the case of release builds using + Microsoft Visual C++, these consist of the Visual C++ Redistributable Packages, + which are intended for recursive installation by the application's installer on + the target machine. Otherwise, the shared libraries of the compiler runtime are used. + + The application may require additional 3rd-party libraries (for example, + database libraries), which are not taken into account by windeployqt. + Additional arguments are described in the tools' help output: \badcode |