Hi,
this is the same problem that the Qt installation program has, it solves
it by binary patching your copy of Qt5Core.dll when it installs Qt onto
your computer (e.g. set qt_prfxpath="C:\Qt\5.5\msvc2013").
Maybe you can to the same?
Or perhaps a more viable long-range solution is to introduce a r/w API
to Qt's resource system, so that instead of patching Qt5Core.dll it
would be possible to patch the contents of the embedded
":/qt/etc/qt.conf" resource file inside your .exe file. (That would
imply it isn't zipped when compiled and also that ample patch space is
provided, as it is done in Qt5Core.dll for the qt_prfxpath property.)
Rgrds Henry
On 2016-01-28 10:47, Maximilian Hrabowski wrote:
Hi,
our application has an auto-update feature that allows to download and
install a new version of the application. The update package includes
everything, also Qt. The only permanent files are a launcher executable
and a config file that points to the real application folder. The folder
which contains the launcher is usually not writable by the user so the
this application folder can be located anywhere on the system. The
primary target platform is windows.
Our application uses qt plugins, qt webengine etc. so we need to rely on
a proper qt.conf file so any plugins and especially the
QWebEngineProcess.exe is found.
Since on Windows qt.conf is looked up in
1. :/qt/etc/qt.conf
2. applicationDirPath()+/qt.conf
it is not found since the applicationDirPath() points to the folder of
the launcher.
What we need is a way to look up the qt.conf at another location as
well. Of course i could patch Qt myself to do what i like but i target a
solution that would qualify to become part of qt and i would be willing
to contribute this feature.
However, before do this i would like to discuss how this could be
achieved and if there is any chance this feature could be accepted in qt.
I thought about the following ways (order gives my personal opinion’s
priority):
1. Add a new public API: static void QLibraryInfo::setQtConfFilePath(
const QString& filePath) which defaults to ":/qt/etc/qt.conf“ and is
used in QSettings*QLibraryInfoPrivate::findConfiguration() instead of
the hard-coded path.
2. Also lookup qt.conf in all of QLibraryInfo::libraryPaths() (this is
how we got the plugins found)
3. introduce an environment variable that points to the qt.conf similar
to the one of QWebEngineProcess.exe
Please comment.
Cheers,
Maximilian
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Clausmark GmbH
Tel: +49 (721) 98963941
Clausmark - The creators of BeeCore and Bee4IT
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