<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <!-- /home/espenr/tmp/qt-3.3.8-espenr-2499/qt-x11-free-3.3.8/doc/distributingqt.doc:36 --> <html> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"> <title>Deploying Qt Applications</title> <style type="text/css"><!-- fn { margin-left: 1cm; text-indent: -1cm; } a:link { color: #004faf; text-decoration: none } a:visited { color: #672967; text-decoration: none } body { background: #ffffff; color: black; } --></style> </head> <body> <table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"> <tr bgcolor="#E5E5E5"> <td valign=center> <a href="index.html"> <font color="#004faf">Home</font></a> | <a href="classes.html"> <font color="#004faf">All Classes</font></a> | <a href="mainclasses.html"> <font color="#004faf">Main Classes</font></a> | <a href="annotated.html"> <font color="#004faf">Annotated</font></a> | <a href="groups.html"> <font color="#004faf">Grouped Classes</font></a> | <a href="functions.html"> <font color="#004faf">Functions</font></a> </td> <td align="right" valign="center"><img src="logo32.png" align="right" width="64" height="32" border="0"></td></tr></table><h1 align=center>Deploying Qt Applications</h1> <p> This document lists the platform-specific files needed to distribute Qt applications. We do not include any compiler-specific files that may also be required. (See also, <a href="winsystem.html">Window System-specific Notes</a>.) <p> <!-- toc --> <ul> <li><a href="#1"> Static Qt Applications </a> <li><a href="#2"> Dynamic Qt Applications </a> <ul> <li><a href="#2-1"> Distributing Plugins </a> </ul> <li><a href="#3"> Dynamic Dialogs </a> </ul> <!-- endtoc --> <p> <h2> Static Qt Applications </h2> <a name="1"></a><p> To distribute static Qt applications, you need the following file for all platforms: <p> <ul> <li> your application's executable </ul> <p> <h2> Dynamic Qt Applications </h2> <a name="2"></a><p> To distribute dynamic Qt applications, you will need the following files for all platforms: <p> <ul> <li> application executable <li> the Qt library </ul> <p> The Qt library must either be in the same directory as the application executable or in a directory which is included in the system library path. <p> The library is in provided by the following platform specific files: <p> <center><table cellpadding="4" cellspacing="2" border="0"> <tr bgcolor="#a2c511"> <th valign="top">Platform <th valign="top">File <tr bgcolor="#f0f0f0"> <td valign="top">Windows <td valign="top"><tt>qt[version].dll</tt> <tr bgcolor="#d0d0d0"> <td valign="top">Unix/Linux <td valign="top"><tt>libqt[version].so</tt> <tr bgcolor="#f0f0f0"> <td valign="top">Mac <td valign="top"><tt>libqt[version].dylib</tt> </table></center> <p> <em>version</em> includes the three version numbers. For threaded builds the version is prefixed with <em>-mt</em>. <p> <h3> Distributing Plugins </h3> <a name="2-1"></a><p> You must include any plugin files required by the application. <p> Plugins must be put into a subdirectory under a directory known to Qt as a plugin directory. The subdirectory must have the name of the plugin category (e.g. <tt>styles</tt>, <tt>sqldrivers</tt>, <tt>designer</tt>, etc.). <p> Qt searches in the following directories for plugin categories: <p> <ul> <li> Application specific plugin paths <li> Build-directory of Qt <li> The application directory </ul> <p> Application specific plugin paths can be added using <a href="qapplication.html#addLibraryPath">QApplication::addLibraryPath</a>(). The build-directory of Qt is hardcoded in the Qt library and can be changed as a part of the installation process (see the <a href="distributor-example.html">distributor-example.html</a> Distributor example). <p> <h2> Dynamic Dialogs </h2> <a name="3"></a><p> For dynamic dialogs if you use <a href="qwidgetfactory.html">QWidgetFactory</a>, you need the following files for all platforms: <p> <ul> <li> The same files as used for dynamic Qt applications <li> The QUI Library </ul> <p> The QUI library is provided by the following platform specific files: <center><table cellpadding="4" cellspacing="2" border="0"> <tr bgcolor="#a2c511"> <th valign="top">Platform <th valign="top">File <tr bgcolor="#d0d0d0"> <td valign="top">Windows <td valign="top"><tt>qui.lib</tt> <tr bgcolor="#f0f0f0"> <td valign="top">Unix/Linux <td valign="top"><tt>libqui.so</tt> <tr bgcolor="#d0d0d0"> <td valign="top">Mac <td valign="top"><tt>libqui.dylib</tt> </table></center> <p> The QUI library must either be in the same directory as the application executable or in a directory which is included in the system library path. <p> <!-- eof --> <p><address><hr><div align=center> <table width=100% cellspacing=0 border=0><tr> <td>Copyright © 2007 <a href="troll.html">Trolltech</a><td align=center><a href="trademarks.html">Trademarks</a> <td align=right><div align=right>Qt 3.3.8</div> </table></div></address></body> </html>