Deployment on Linux

Perdrix

I'm in some considerable doubt as to what I am supposed to do so I can deliver my application for installation on Linux.

I added this to my cmake files in the hope that it would "do the right thing":

 set (deploy_tool_options_arg "")
if(APPLE)
    set(deploy_tool_options_arg "${deploy_tool_options_arg} --hardened-runtime")
elseif(WIN32)
    set(deploy_tool_options_arg "${deploy_tool_options_arg} --pdb")
endif()

# Generate a deployment script to be executed at install time
# App bundles on macOS have an .app suffix
if(APPLE)
    set(executable_path "$<TARGET_FILE_NAME:DeepSkyStacker>.app")
else()
    message ("Target filename:"  $<TARGET_FILE_NAME:DeepSkyStacker>)
    set(executable_path "${CMAKE_INSTALL_BINDIR}/$<TARGET_FILE_NAME:DeepSkyStacker>")
endif()
message ("executable_path: " ${executable_path})
message ("deploy tools options arg: " ${deploy_tool_options_arg})
 qt_generate_deploy_script(
     TARGET DeepSkyStacker
     OUTPUT_SCRIPT deploy_script
     CONTENT "
 qt_deploy_runtime_dependencies(
     EXECUTABLE \"${executable_path}\"
     DEPLOY_TOOL_OPTIONS ${deploy_tool_options_arg}
 )"
 )

INSTALL (TARGETS DeepSkyStacker)
INSTALL (SCRIPT ${deploy_script})

but for my pains I got:

-- Install configuration: "Debug"
-- Installing: /home/amonra/.vs/DSS/Linux/x64/Debug/./DeepSkyStacker
-- Set non-toolchain portion of runtime path of "/home/amonra/.vs/DSS/Linux/x64/Debug/./DeepSkyStacker" to "$ORIGIN:$ORIGIN/"
CMake Error at /opt/Qt/6.8.0/gcc_64/lib/cmake/Qt6Core/Qt6CoreDeploySupport.cmake:314 (message):
  No Qt deploy tool available for this target platform
Call Stack (most recent call first):
  /opt/Qt/6.8.0/gcc_64/lib/cmake/Qt6Core/Qt6CoreDeploySupport.cmake:543 (qt6_deploy_runtime_dependencies)
  .qt/deploy_DeepSkyStacker_dc8dd86514.cmake:5 (qt_deploy_runtime_dependencies)
  DeepSkyStacker/cmake_install.cmake:66 (include)
  cmake_install.cmake:62 (include)
FAILED: CMakeFiles/install.util 
cd /home/amonra/.vs/DSS/out/build && /usr/bin/cmake -P cmake_install.cmake

Add to that how is one supposed to handle picking up the Qt .so files if I add them to my installation directory (given the LD_LIBRARY_PATH typically won't contain .).

David

Perdrix

I found this (after a bit of digging):

https://forum.qt.io/topic/159779/deployment-on-linux

It answers most of my questions for now. I'll mark this as solved and come back later it I need to.