Hi, > On Aug 12, 2016, at 9:57 AM, Julius Bullinger <[email protected]> > wrote: > > I noticed that there are some new options in Qt Creator since 4.1 (maybe > 4.0?) concerning deployment. > > · There's a setting "Always deploy project before running it" in the > Build & Run settings > · There's an option "Run Without Deployment" in the Build menu
These exist at least since Qt Creator 2.7. > > However, I didn’t find an in-depth documentation/explanation for these > options. > > Now, I understand what they do on Linux, and how they work for Device > Creation/Android/Mobile apps. But what exactly is their purpose on Windows > desktop? Do they run windeployqt by default, or do they call [mingw32-,n]make > install after building? Or are they doing nothing by default? Deployment does nothing by default on desktop, but in Projects mode > Run for your project, you can define deployment steps, as it looks like you do below. > In the past, we used a deploy.pro file which was included in release builds > only. In this file, we had several INSTALLSdirectives for the files we want > to deploy, and a call to windeployqt.exe for Qt library deployment. > We then needed to manually add an additional deploy step to call make install > in the project’s Run settings. > > Is this still the preferred way? What has changed with the integration of the > new deployment options? Is there a way to configure them on a per-project > basis? > > Thanks for your help, > Julius > _______________________________________________ > Qt-creator mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.qt-project.org/mailman/listinfo/qt-creator -- Eike Ziller Principal Software Engineer The Qt Company GmbH Rudower Chaussee 13 D-12489 Berlin [email protected] http://qt.io Geschäftsführer: Mika Pälsi, Juha Varelius, Tuula Haataja Sitz der Gesellschaft: Berlin, Registergericht: Amtsgericht Charlottenburg, HRB 144331 B _______________________________________________ Qt-creator mailing list [email protected] http://lists.qt-project.org/mailman/listinfo/qt-creator
