How to create executable file for a Qt Application?

Question

I\'ve been searching on the internet for some useful and clear information about this, it\'s annoying that such a trivial thing is so hard to do.

What I need is to c

Answer 1

Basically you have to look for mingw subfolder deep into qt tree, where qt utilities reside, and copy needed dll's.

These are the steps I follow, based upon QT 4.7.4, for packaging the application with correct shared libraries.

1. Let's say you've installed QT under c:\qtsdk
2. Open your project, and compile it in release mode.
3. Go to this directory: C:\QtSDK\Desktop\Qt\4.7.4\mingw\bin -- it contains all shared libraries. Debug libraries end with a "d" -- frex, QtCore.dll is release version, while QtCoreD.dll is debug version

4. Copy at least these files into your release directory (where your .exe lies)

   • mingwm10.dll
   • libgcc_s_dw2-1.dll
   • QtCore4.dll
   • QtGui4.dll

   I just built, tested and deployed a dummy project this way.