Ziller Eike wrote:

> Can we please already now turn a cross-platform hat on, and at least think 
> about options that at least do not right away block using the same for non-OS 
> X?

Sure, this is just a proposition, "bundle_qt" (proposed in latter posts) seems 
to match it better.

> I do not see any reason why one shouldn’t be able to turn on copying Qt libs 
> next to the application binary on Windows even without any changes on how Qt 
> is built there. And usage of $ORIGIN on Linux doesn’t sound like a too bad 
> idea to me either. “bundle_frameworks” already disqualifies using the same 
> config option on anything non-OS X. (Aside from that, what is with dylib 
> builds of Qt?)

Sure I do agree, that it should work for Windows too. But Windows is out of my 
scope. Anyone eager to do similar changes for Windows?

> (a) e.g. the Qt Creator build creates the application, and a whole bunch of 
> plugin dylibs with DESTDIR in the bundle. The rpaths should just be correct 
> from the start, probably no problem there, but some libraries there add 
> dependencies to the Qt libraries that are needed. The main application is 
> pretty minimal. So, depending on dylib target sub-.pro files, the list of Qt 
> libraries to bundle with the *application* needs to change.

If we put bundled Qt library as Makefile target dependency either of 
executable, plugin or whatever. Each of this targets will trigger copy of 
missing libraries.

> (b) e.g. we have quite a few tools shipped in the Qt Creator bundle, which 
> are either used by Qt Creator internally (e.g. for iOS device detection, 
> starting the simulator,...), or shipped for convenience (the qbs that Qt 
> Creator is linked against, etc). We definitely do not want to have separate 
> Qt frameworks for these, but want them to use the frameworks from the Qt 
> Creator application. With macdeployqt we tell it about the additional 
> executables, and macdeployqt takes care of bundling additional required Qt 
> frameworks, and fixing install names/rpaths correspondingly. 

As long it is same framework then it has single Frameworks folder, therefore 
there will be no doubling.

--Adam
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