Please help me find a portable version of Qt 5.1.1 for Windows 32-bit. If there is none available, please tell me how to create one. I've never done it, so I'll need a step-by-step instructions.
Thanks in advance!
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Qt is not portable, they're dumb enough to hardcode the install path not only into config files, but into BINARIES too.
You can create a bin/qt.conf file though, e.g.
[Paths]
Prefix = c:/lib/Qt/4.8.5
Then check the result with bin/qmake.exe -query, it should show the given path in the config file.
Too bad 4.8.5 crashes when qt.conf is present, and there's no 4.8.6 yet...
All Qt versions are supposed to be portable - it is the nature of this framework. You can find desired binary version of Qt here.
Portability is not at binary-level but at source-level. It means that you can port an application written in standard C++ and Qt among different platforms (e.g., Windows, Linux, Mac, and so on).
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Hi I have a debian image on BBB I have already installed QT creator on B^3 but the problem is whenever I try to start a new project in qt creator, couldn't see any option of kit. Infact when i add qmake and compiler path the application throws error.
What can I do to solve the problem. Can i directly get the full pack of SDK from qt.io/download ?
You must compile Qt libraries for your device (BBB) on your own, using specified compiler. You can find more information on this topic, here:
Qt Cross-Compilation Options
As soon as you compile Qt libraries for your device, you must move them to appropriate directories (on your BBB).
First, I would suggest learning to cross-compile, it's much faster & more easily maintained when you want to move to new versions. There's a ton of documentation and community around doing this. Windows & Linux both of which are probably dated, but info is still relavent. I've heard it's much easier from a linux host, but that could be biased.
That being said, if you don't want to cross-compile I believe you can simply install the qt embedded libraries. This question may offer some good advice. Once you have the libraries installed, you should be able to use qmake directly to create the Makefile for your project, then you can use cmake, or g++, etc.. to do the actual compiling.
You're likely going to work in command line though, I'm not sure you can run QT Creator on the BBB directly. I could be wrong.
I am in the process of upgrading from Qt4 to Qt5.
When I compiled the Qt4 sources I used to configure like this:
configure –qtlibinfix _64_
We did this for the x64 build so that the resulting Qt dlls would be renamed QtCore_64_.dll etc...
We are supporting both 64 and 32 bit builds and this made it a lot easier for us.
However, now with Qt5 it seems the -qtlibinfix option is gone. Is there an equivalent? Or another way a similar thing can be accomplished.
I have been scouring the Qt doc, and I have not found anything yet. Any help would be appreciated.
I'm also porting an app from Qt4 to Qt5. -qtlibinfix works for me as expected on Windows, building Qt 5.4.0.
I need to port one of my old program to Windows. The current version uses Qt 3 on Linux.
I'd like to see it within few days only to do some tests.
Instead of porting my code on Qt 4 (no time now), is it possible to recompile on Windows with Qt 3? Do I also need minGW? Which problems may I have doing this porting?
I can't find Qt 3 for windows, can someone give me a link? or I can use the same qt source I use on Linux?
Yes, you can !
Download the qt-win-3.3.x-8 project on Sourceforge.
QT4 still has back-compatible QT3 classes, prefixed with Q3* (see http://qt-project.org/doc/qt-4.8/qt3support.html)
You should be able to compile & run you QT3 app on QT4 via those classes with minimal adaptations.
Qt-3.2 for Windows was also distributed in a CD bundled with the book "C++ GUI programming with Qt3" at no additional cost with a license for non-commercial use.
ISBN: 978-0131240728
The supported compilers were MSVC and Borland. MingW is not mentioned.
I am developing an application in Qt, but using D language (with QtD binding). I've noticed that my app crashes with Qt 4.7.x, so I need to use Qt 4.6.2 instead. However in my system Qt 4.7.2 is installed. Unfortunately I neither make QtD work with the latest Qt versions nor (I'm afraid) count on QtD developers...
The only thing I need to make my application install in system Qt 4.6.2 libs and use it, but let all the other applications still use Qt 4.7.2. Is it possible? If it is, how to do it then?
The answer to your question is the version of Qt is determined by the qmake you use to generate your Makefile.
/opt/QtSDK/Qt-4.6.2/bin/qmake
/opt/QtSDK/Qt-4.7.3/bin/qmake
Each will use the library in the directory.
It is possible to install several versions of the library into one system, and all package managers (rpm, deb) support this out of the box.
These libraries will be just differently named. For example, if id do
ls /usr/lib/ | grep libcurl
on my system, I'll get:
libcurl-gnutls.so.3
libcurl-gnutls.so.4
libcurl-gnutls.so.4.2.0
libcurl.so.3
libcurl.so.4
libcurl.so.4.2.0
, so, different version of the same library happily live together.
All you need to do is to link against the desired version of QT library. You need to sepcify it in linker options (don't remember the exact option).
Is there a quick, straightforward way to make a Qt application into an executable? I attempted to follow the instructions at http://doc.qt.digia.com/4.1/deployment-windows.html but have been unsuccesfull thus far; I'm unable to Any help would be much appreciated. Thanks!
I always use CMake to build Qt projects, it's easy, free and cross platform. Guide : Compiling Qt4 apps with CMake. CMake also come with CPack to easly make installer for Windows, Mac and Linux.
I agree with chmod700 about the Qt Creator suggestion, it's not my favorite IDE but it's still really nice and easy.
Do you mean an installer package? I assume you are able to compile, link, and run your app and you mean how do you package it up for others.
http://installbuilder.bitrock.com/ <-- special handling of Qt based projects but costs $
http://www.jrsoftware.org/isinfo.php <-- my personal favorite and it's free (can be rough to learn advanced features though)
Though if you mean how do you build your app, you may want to try the new Qt Creator (http://www.qtsoftware.com/products/appdev/developer-tools/developer-tools#qt-tools-at-a) which will setup build targets for you and really makes desktop Qt dev a snap. Also if you're still using 4.1, you can now use 4.5 under the LGPL on all platforms making it almost a no-brainer to upgrade.
I'm not sure if I understand your problem. Assuming you're using MinGW, it's really easy and quite straightforward:
get the Qt sources and unpack them to some folder (f.e. c:\Qt\4.5.0-static)
install MinGW. Make sure the MinGW executable folder is in the %PATH% variable.
open a cmd windows, go to the Qt sources and run configure -static. You can add other config options if you like to, but usually you don't need that.
when building Qt finished, go to your application sources, open a cmd window and run the qmake of your built Qt installation -- i.e. c:\Qt\4.5.0-static\bin\qmake in the example given above.
run make
you get a statically linked binary in the end (you might want to check it with Dependency Walker).
Doing the same using Visual Studio is pretty similar.
Or do you want to build dynamically and create an installer package?