How can I create the application bundle in Linux?

Yash001 · 10 Apr 2019, 18:27

Hello,

I am using Ubuntu 18.04 and Qt 5.13.1.

I am able to compile application, and it is run perfectly from Qt creator.
if I will trying to run from output then it is giving me error because of executable file is not able to find dependency.

executable file name: SquidStat
dependency name: libqtcsv.so.1

Location of executable and dependency files are at same directory.

Here the output of ~/Desktop/Application Bundle/_SquidStat$ ldd SquidStat

./SquidStat: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libQt5Core.so.5: version `Qt_5.13' not found (required by ./SquidStat)
	linux-vdso.so.1 (0x00007ffcd6ffd000)
	libqtcsv.so.1 => not found
	libSquidstatLibrary.so.1 => not found
	libqwt.so.6 => not found
	libhidapi-libusb.so.0 => /usr/local/lib/libhidapi-libusb.so.0 (0x00007fad82d15000)
	libQt5Widgets.so.5 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libQt5Widgets.so.5 (0x00007fad824ce000)
	libQt5Gui.so.5 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libQt5Gui.so.5 (0x00007fad81d65000)
	libQt5SerialPort.so.5 => not found
	libQt5Core.so.5 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libQt5Core.so.5 (0x00007fad8161a000)
	libstdc++.so.6 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libstdc++.so.6 (0x00007fad81291000)
	libm.so.6 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libm.so.6 (0x00007fad80ef3000)
	libgcc_s.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgcc_s.so.1 (0x00007fad80cdb000)
	libc.so.6 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6 (0x00007fad808ea000)
	librt.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/librt.so.1 (0x00007fad806e2000)
	libusb-1.0.so.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libusb-1.0.so.0 (0x00007fad804ca000)
	libpthread.so.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpthread.so.0 (0x00007fad802ab000)
	libGL.so.1 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libGL.so.1 (0x00007fad8001f000)
	libpng16.so.16 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpng16.so.16 (0x00007fad7fded000)
	libharfbuzz.so.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libharfbuzz.so.0 (0x00007fad7fb4f000)
	libz.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libz.so.1 (0x00007fad7f932000)
	libicui18n.so.60 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libicui18n.so.60 (0x00007fad7f491000)
	libicuuc.so.60 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libicuuc.so.60 (0x00007fad7f0da000)
	libdouble-conversion.so.1 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libdouble-conversion.so.1 (0x00007fad7eec9000)
	libdl.so.2 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libdl.so.2 (0x00007fad7ecc5000)
	libglib-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libglib-2.0.so.0 (0x00007fad7e9ae000)
	/lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x00007fad839e8000)
	libudev.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libudev.so.1 (0x00007fad7e790000)
	libGLX.so.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libGLX.so.0 (0x00007fad7e55f000)
	libGLdispatch.so.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libGLdispatch.so.0 (0x00007fad7e2a9000)
	libfreetype.so.6 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libfreetype.so.6 (0x00007fad7dff5000)
	libgraphite2.so.3 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgraphite2.so.3 (0x00007fad7ddc8000)
	libicudata.so.60 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libicudata.so.60 (0x00007fad7c21f000)
	libpcre.so.3 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpcre.so.3 (0x00007fad7bfad000)
	libX11.so.6 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libX11.so.6 (0x00007fad7bc75000)
	libxcb.so.1 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libxcb.so.1 (0x00007fad7ba4d000)
	libXau.so.6 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libXau.so.6 (0x00007fad7b849000)
	libXdmcp.so.6 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libXdmcp.so.6 (0x00007fad7b643000)
	libbsd.so.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libbsd.so.0 (0x00007fad7b42e000)

which approach is better to inform executable file where to search dependency?

define the path w.r.t to executable using rpath and $ORIGIN.
if this is better then?
How to I write the rpath for SquidStat(executable file)?
SquidStat application is find all qt library from
libQt5Core.so.5 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libQt5Core.so.5.
if this is better then?
How can I set my all dependent library of my application at /usr/lib/ similar like qt application did while installing?

SGaist · wrote on 4 Oct 2019, 21:25

There's a ticket associated with that warning that explains why it's there and how you can continue anyway.

SGaist · 4 Oct 2019, 18:44

Hi,

Depending on your end goal the linuxdeployqt project might be of interest.

Yash001 · S SGaist 4 Oct 2019, 18:36

@SGaist

Thank you for quick response. I tried that tool but it may not support the new Ubuntu 18.04. I am not sure but I am getting error like below.

~/Desktop/Application Bundle$ ./linuxdeployqt-6-x86_64.AppImage 
linuxdeployqt 5 (commit 37631e5), build 631 built on 2019-01-25 22:47:58 UTC
ERROR: The host system is too new.
Please run on a system with a glibc version no newer than what comes with the oldest
still-supported mainstream distribution, which currently is glibc 2.20.
This is so that the resulting bundle will work on most still-supported Linux distributions.
For more information, please see
https://github.com/probonopd/linuxdeployqt/issues/340

SGaist · wrote on 4 Oct 2019, 21:25

There's a ticket associated with that warning that explains why it's there and how you can continue anyway.

Yash001 · wrote on 15 Oct 2019, 18:40

Thank you @SGaist for reply. I am able to collect all Qt libraries with help of CQtDeployer tool. I used CQTDeployer from https://github.com/QuasarApp/CQtDeployer.

it is lunch application by calling below script from terminal.

SquidStat.sh contain:

#!/bin/sh
BASE_DIR=$(dirname "$(readlink -f "$0")")
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH="$BASE_DIR"/lib:"$BASE_DIR":$LD_LIBRARY_PATH
export QML_IMPORT_PATH="$BASE_DIR"/qml:QML_IMPORT_PATH
export QML2_IMPORT_PATH="$BASE_DIR"/qml:QML2_IMPORT_PATH
export QT_PLUGIN_PATH="$BASE_DIR"/plugins:QT_PLUGIN_PATH
export QTDIR="$BASE_DIR"
export QT_QPA_PLATFORM_PLUGIN_PATH="$BASE_DIR"/plugins/platforms:QT_QPA_PLATFORM_PLUGIN_PATH
"$BASE_DIR"/bin/SquidStat "$@"

is it any way to to create the SquidStat.sh somthing like binary executable. So that user can just create double click on executable and it is open application instead of calling script from terminal.

Here my file tree.
.
├── bin
│   ├── elements
│   │   ├── libConstantCurrentAdv.so
│   │   ├── libConstantCurrent.so
│   │   ├── libConstantPotentialAdv.so
│   │   ├── libConstantPotential.so
│   │   ├── libConstantPower.so
│   │   ├── libConstantResistance.so
│   │   ├── libCyclicVoltammetryElement.so
│   │   ├── libDCCurrentSweep.so
│   │   ├── libDCPotentialSweep.so
│   │   ├── libDiffPulseVoltammetry_galv.so
│   │   ├── libDiffPulseVoltammetry.so
│   │   ├── libEISGalvanostatic.so
│   │   ├── libEISPotentiostatic.so
│   │   ├── libMaxPower.so
│   │   ├── libNormalPulseVoltammetry_galv.so
│   │   ├── libNormalPulseVoltammetry.so
│   │   ├── libOpenCircuit.so
│   │   └── libSqrWaveVoltammetry_element.so
│   ├── prebuilt
│   │   ├── libBatteryCapacity.so
│   │   ├── libChargeDischarge1.so
│   │   ├── libChargeDischarge2.so
│   │   ├── libChargeDischarge3AC_galv.so
│   │   ├── libChargeDischarge4.so
│   │   ├── libChronoamperometry.so
│   │   ├── libChronopotentiometry.so
│   │   ├── libConstantPower.so
│   │   ├── libConstantResistance.so
│   │   ├── libCyclicVoltammetry.so
│   │   ├── libDiffPulseVoltammetry.so
│   │   ├── libEISGalvanostatic.so
│   │   ├── libEISPotentiostatic.so
│   │   ├── libGITT.so
│   │   ├── libLinearSweepVoltammetry.so
│   │   ├── libMottSchottky.so
│   │   ├── libNormalPulseVoltammetry.so
│   │   ├── libOpenCircuit.so
│   │   ├── libPITT.so
│   │   ├── libSqrWaveVoltammetry.so
│   │   └── libStaircaseVoltammetry.so
│   └── SquidStat
├── lib
│   ├── libhidapi-libusb.so.0
│   ├── libicudata.so.56
│   ├── libicui18n.so.56
│   ├── libicuuc.so.56
│   ├── libQt5Core.so.5
│   ├── libQt5DBus.so.5
│   ├── libQt5EglFSDeviceIntegration.so.5
│   ├── libQt5Gui.so.5
│   ├── libQt5Network.so.5
│   ├── libQt5OpenGL.so.5
│   ├── libQt5PrintSupport.so.5
│   ├── libQt5SerialPort.so.5
│   ├── libQt5Svg.so.5
│   ├── libQt5WaylandClient.so.5
│   ├── libQt5Widgets.so.5
│   ├── libQt5XcbQpa.so.5
│   ├── libqtcsv.so.1
│   ├── libqwt.so.6
│   └── libSquidstatLibrary.so.1
├── plugins
│   ├── iconengines
│   │   └── libqsvgicon.so
│   ├── imageformats
│   │   ├── libqgif.so
│   │   ├── libqicns.so
│   │   ├── libqico.so
│   │   ├── libqjpeg.so
│   │   ├── libqsvg.so
│   │   ├── libqtga.so
│   │   ├── libqtiff.so
│   │   ├── libqwbmp.so
│   │   └── libqwebp.so
│   ├── platforms
│   │   ├── libqeglfs.so
│   │   ├── libqlinuxfb.so
│   │   ├── libqminimalegl.so
│   │   ├── libqminimal.so
│   │   ├── libqoffscreen.so
│   │   ├── libqvnc.so
│   │   ├── libqwayland-egl.so
│   │   ├── libqwayland-generic.so
│   │   ├── libqwayland-xcomposite-egl.so
│   │   ├── libqwayland-xcomposite-glx.so
│   │   └── libqxcb.so
│   ├── printsupport
│   │   └── libcupsprintersupport.so
│   └── xcbglintegrations
│   ├── libqxcb-egl-integration.so
│   └── libqxcb-glx-integration.so
├── SquidStat.desktop
├── Squidstat.png
├── SquidStat.sh
└── translations
├── qtbase_ar.qm
├── qtbase_bg.qm
├── qtbase_ca.qm
├── qtbase_cs.qm
├── qtbase_da.qm
├── qtbase_de.qm
├── qtbase_en.qm
├── qtbase_es.qm
├── qtbase_fi.qm
├── qtbase_fr.qm
├── qtbase_gd.qm
├── qtbase_he.qm
├── qtbase_hu.qm
├── qtbase_it.qm
├── qtbase_ja.qm
├── qtbase_ko.qm
├── qtbase_lv.qm
├── qtbase_pl.qm
├── qtbase_ru.qm
├── qtbase_sk.qm
├── qtbase_uk.qm
├── qtbase_zh_TW.qm
├── qtserialport_de.qm
├── qtserialport_en.qm
├── qtserialport_es.qm
├── qtserialport_ja.qm
├── qtserialport_ko.qm
├── qtserialport_pl.qm
├── qtserialport_ru.qm
└── qtserialport_uk.qm

my SquidStat.desktop containe:

[Desktop Entry]
Version=1.0
Encoding=UTF-8
Type=Application
Name=Squidstat
Comment=Squidstat
NoDsiplay=true
Exec=SquidStat.sh 
Icon=Squidstat.png
Name[en_US]=SquidStat.desktop

any one give me direction for creating custom launcher from SquidStat.sh?

I am trying to achieve:
whenever user will install the application bundle then application can install at give location and popup in while search.

Yash001 · wrote on 15 Oct 2019, 20:23

Hi,
I am able to open the application by double click. I made change in Icon and Exec path.

Exec=APP_PACKAGE_PATH/SquidStat.sh
Icon=APP_PACKAGE_PATH/Squidstat.png