Release of CQtDeployer v1.6

Release of the C++/Qt and QML application deployment utility CQtDeployer v1.6

This is major release that include more improvements in build system. From now cqtdeployer using CMake build system. So from now build from source will be easier.

Complete list of all changes

CQtDeployer 1.6

New features

• Move to Cmake build system
• Refactoring all project structure
• Improved QML parser
• Add support qt 6.4
• Added support (snap version) deploy apps that was buildet with Qt from system

Fixes

• Fixed snap version of cqtdeployer
• Fixed deploy of windows apps
• Fixed documentation web city (added support of backend search engine)

New options of the build

• CQT_DEPLOYER_TESTS "This option disables or enables tests of the CQtDeployer project. By Default enabled - **CQT_DEPLOYER_TOOL** "This option disables or enables example app of the CQtDeployer project. By Default enabled

Detailed analysis of the most interesting changes.

New build system

From now, you can build cqtdeployer from source easier

• just 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

• run cmake (this step requires install Qt libraries, you can install qt from system or from official site of Qt corporation.)

  bash
     
     cmake .. -DCMAKE_PREFIX_PATH=/path/to/qt/root/dir

• build cqtdeployer

  bash
     
     make -j8

• create installers and packages (this step requires installers cqtdeployer tool)

  bash
     
     make deploy 

Done.

Note

If you do not have installed cqtdeployer on your build machine, you can compile cqtdeployer tool as a static. For this, disable the BUILD_SHARED_LIBS option.

cmake .. -DBUILD_SHARED_LIBS=0
make install

If you want to change Qt, Just run cmake with override qt location.

cmake .. -DCMAKE_PREFIX_PATH=/path/to/qt/root/dir
# or
cmake .. -DCMAKE_PREFIX_PATH=~/Qt/6.4.3/gcc_64