Deploy Qt5 QML application

Question

To test QML deployment I\'ve created a very simple QML application. Here is the code:

main.cpp

#include 

        

Answer 1

This what i've figured out so far,

You can't just open a qml file in main.cpp, you have to put those qmls into a resource

qml.qrc:

    
        main.qml
    

Then main.cpp must load it from the resource

int main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
    QGuiApplication app(argc, argv);
    QQmlApplicationEngine engine;
    engine.load(QUrl(QStringLiteral("qrc:/main.qml")));
    return app.exec();
}

then build and check it works, then deploy as follows:

• locate the releasse directory where your EXE lives
• locate the directory where your QML lives
• create a directory somewhere, say, deploy

then

cd deploy
windeployqt --release --qmldir  

NOTE: add location of windeployqt to PATH eg. C:\Qt\Qt5.5.1\5.5\msvc2013\bin