CQtDeployer for arm machines

At this time, cqtdeployer does not have precompiled distributions for arm platform. But it supports deploy arm applications, so the best solution for install cqtdeployer tool to arm host is building from source.

Build

You can read a main article of building cqtdeployer from source here.

Qt installer framework.

The QIFW not available for arm platforms. So if you want to create classic installers you need to build Qt installer framework from source.

Build from source

• clone project

  bash
     git clone https://github.com/QuasarApp/CQtDeployer.git
     git submodule update --init --recursive
     cd CQtDeployer

• create temp build directory

  bash
     mkdir build 
     cd build

• Install qt from package manager (for example apt on ubuntu)

  bash
     sudo apt install qt6-base-dev

• run cmake

  bash
     cmake .. -DBUILD_SHARED_LIBS=0 -DCQT_DEPLOYER_TESTS=0

• build cqtdeployer

  bash
     make -j8

• create cqtdeployer executable.

  bash
     make install 

Done. Now you can add cqtdeployer into your PATH variable and use it or create symbol link to cqtdeployer executable in /bin folder.

 bash
ln -s ./bin/CQtDeployer /bin/cqtdeployer