How to make binary distribution of Qt application for Linux

Question

I am developing cross-platform Qt application. It is freeware though not open-source. Therefore I want to distribute it as a compiled binary.

On windows there is no

Answer 1

You can look into QtCreator folder and use it as an example. It has qt.conf and qtcreator.sh files in QtCreator/bin.

lib/qtcreator is the folder with all needed Qt *.so libraries. Relative path is set inside qtcreator.sh, which should be renamed to you-app-name.sh

imports,plugins,qml are inside bin directory. Path to them is set in qt.conf file. This is needed for QML applications deployment.