QtGraphicalEffects not included in mac deployment

[dogbear]

Hello.

I am trying to deploy a QtQuick app for the mac but macdeployqt seems to be skipping or missing the QtGraphicalEffects module in the final DMG file.

The DMG seems to build fine. When I mount the generated DMG and inspect the contents of the package, I see the Contents tree, which has 'Frameworks' and 'MacOS' sub-directories. The Frameworks directory does NOT contain QtGraphicalEffects.framework or any mention of QtGraphicalEffects.

When I try to run the app from the MacOS subdirectory of the package, an error is reported to the console:

qrc:/TopPanel.qml:2 module "QtGraphicalEffects" is not installed

Here is the command line I use to create the DMG:

./macdeployqt /Users/(me)/Projects/QtQuickProjects/build-(myapp)-Desktop_Qt_5_9_1_clang_64bit-Release/(myapp).app/ -qmldir=/Users/(me)/Qt5.9/5.9.1/clang_64/qml -verbose=1 -dmg

In my /Users/(me)/Qt5.9/5.9.1/clang_64/qml directory, the QtGraphicalEffects directory exists, along with all the other modules that are successfully included in the DMG file.

So, my questions are:

1. why isn't QtGraphicalEffects being included?

2. how do I go about including it into the deployment?

Thank you very much in advance.

Kind Regards,

Carlos

[MaxL]

I think you are mis-using the -qmldir option, it should point to a folder where you have your own QML files.
It will parse them and detect what plugins to install.

[SGaist]

Hi,

Can you provide a small sample application that triggers that behaviour ?

[dogbear]

@SGaist Yes, of course. And thanks for replying.

Here is a sample app that has the same effect:

import QtQuick 2.9
import QtQuick.Window 2.2
import QtGraphicalEffects 1.0

Window {
    visible: true
    width: 640
    height: 480
    title: qsTr("Hello World")

    Rectangle {
        anchors.fill: parent
        gradient: Gradient {
            GradientStop { position: 0.0; color: "white" }
            GradientStop { position: 0.06; color: "#93A8B8" }
            GradientStop { position: 0.45; color: "#B9E1E5" }
            GradientStop { position: 0.55; color: "#B9E1E5" }
            GradientStop { position: 1.0; color: "#71859D" }
        }
    }
}

I used the same macdeployqt statement and I get the same error message.

[MaxL]

I think you are mis-using the -qmldir option, it should point to a folder where you have your own QML files.
It will parse them and detect what plugins to install.

[SGaist]

@MaxL is right !

I missed the ending of your macdeployqt command. -qmldir must indeed be pointed to your projects QML sources.

[dogbear]

@MaxL Yes! That did it. I had been misusing that option from the start. Thanks for spotting it!