Qt Deploying Qt applications Deploying on Mac
Example
Qt offers a deployment tool for Mac: The Mac Deployment Tool.
The Mac deployment tool can be found in QTDIR/bin/macdeployqt. It is designed to automate the process of creating a deployable application bundle that contains the Qt libraries as private frameworks.
The mac deployment tool also deploys the Qt plugins, according to the following rules (unless -no-plugins option is used):
- The platform plugin is always deployed.
- Debug versions of the plugins are not deployed.
- The designer plugins are not deployed.
- The image format plugins are always deployed.
- The print support plugin is always deployed.
- SQL driver plugins are deployed if the application uses the Qt SQL module.
- Script plugins are deployed if the application uses the Qt Script module.
- The SVG icon plugin is deployed if the application uses the Qt SVG module.
- The accessibility plugin is always deployed.
To include a 3rd party library in the application bundle, copy the library into the bundle manually, after the bundle is created.
To use macdeployqt tool you can open terminal and type:
$ QTDIR/bin/macdeployqt <path to app file generated by build>/appFile.app
The app file will now contain all the Qt Libraries used as private frameworks.
macdeployqt also supports the following options
| Option | Description |
|---|---|
| -verbose=<0-3> | 0 = no output, 1 = error/warning (default), 2 = normal, 3 = debug |
| -no-plugins | Skip plugin deployment |
| -dmg | Create a .dmg disk image |
| -no-strip | Don't run 'strip' on the binaries |
| -use-debug-libs | Deploy with debug versions of frameworks and plugins (implies -no-strip) |
| -executable= | Let the given executable also use the deployed frameworks |
| -qmldir= | Deploy imports used by .qml files in the given path |
Detailed informations can be fount on Qt Documentation
