Best Practices for Deploying Qt Applications in SysOps Workflows (Linux/Windows)
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Hi Qt Community,
I'm a SysOps engineer supporting the development and deployment of Qt-based applications across a mix of Linux and Windows environments. We’re focused on automating builds, managing runtime dependencies, and ensuring smooth cross-platform rollouts, especially for GUI-heavy apps deployed internally.
A few key questions I’m exploring:
How do you package and deploy Qt applications across multiple systems? Are you using CMake + deployment tools, or a custom automation pipeline?
Any tips for handling Qt runtime dependencies in clean, reproducible environments?
Have you integrated Qt deployments into tools like Ansible, Attune, or CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, etc.)?
For Windows deployments, how do you ensure consistent behaviour across various client machines (DLLs, paths, registry)?
Would love to hear how other teams are handling automated deployment and system integration for Qt apps, particularly from a SysOps or DevOps perspective.
Thanks in advance,
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Hi and welcome to devnet,
AFAIK, Qt now provides helper macros to make use of e.g. windeployqt to prepare a folder structure that allows your application to run. You can then use your favorite package manager or CPack to build the installer.
For Linux, it begs a different question: are you aiming at providing native packages such as deb and rpm files ?
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