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Mastering Qt 5

You're reading from Mastering Qt 5 Create stunning cross-platform applications using C++ with Qt Widgets and QML with Qt Quick

Product type Paperback

Published in Aug 2018

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781788995399

Length 534 pages

Edition 2nd Edition

Languages

C++

Tools

Qt

Concepts

Cross Platform Mobile Development

Authors (2):

Guillaume Lazar

Robin Penea

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Table of Contents (22) Chapters

Title Page

Copyright and Credits

Dedication

Packt Upsell

Contributors

Preface

1. Get Your Qt Feet Wet FREE CHAPTER

2. Discovering qmake Secrets

3. Dividing Your Project and Ruling Your Code

4. Conquering the Desktop UI

5. Dominating the Mobile UI

6. Even Qt Deserves a Slice of Raspberry Pi

7. Third-Party Libraries without a Headache

8. Animations - Its Alive, Alive!

9. Keeping Your Sanity with Multithreading

10. Need IPC? Get Your Minions to Work

11. Having Fun with Multimedia and Serialization

12. You Shall (Not) Pass with QTest

13. All Packed and Ready to Deploy

14. Qt Hat Tips and Tricks

1. Other Books You May Enjoy

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Index

Packaging for OS X

On OS X, applications are built and run from a bundle: a single directory that contains the application binary and all its dependencies. In the finder, these bundles are viewed as .app special directories.

When running gallery-desktop from Qt Creator, the application is already bundled in a .app file. Because we are using a custom library, called gallery-core, this gallery-desktop.app does not contain all the dependencies, and Qt Creator handles it for us.

What we aim to create is a script that completely packages gallery-desktop (gallery-core included) in a .dmg file, an OS X disk image file that is mounted upon executionn and lets the user install the application with ease.

To achieve this, Qt provides the macdeployqt tool, which gathers the dependencies and creates the .dmg file.

First, check that your environment variables are correctly set, as shown in the following table:

Name	Example
`QTDIR`	`$HOME/Qt/5.11/clang_64`

Create the scripts/package-macosx.sh file with the following...

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Authors (2)

Guillaume Lazar

Guillaume Lazar

Guillaume Lazar is a software engineer living in France, near Paris. He has worked in different companies, from start-ups to multinationals, for the last 10 years. He took the opportunity to observe and learn many team organizations and technologies. In 2014, he founded his own software development company at the age of 27. The current hierarchical organization that applies to most companies seems obsolete to him. With his own company, he wants to try a different approach. Although he defines himself as a Qt framework lover, he likes to mix different technologies and platforms. He also spends time on game development, machine learning, and electronics, because "things" become "alive".

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Robin Penea

Robin Penea

Robin Penea has been working in the software industry for a more than a decade. He worked in start-ups and large companies with many technologies that ranged from embedded software to web development. Armed with this experience, he wrote the Mastering Qt 5 book to spread what he loves the most about the programming craft: proper design and quality code. The teaching bug has bitten him, and he continues to share what he learned online using videos. When he is not tinkering with some new technology, he is either on a wall, rock-climbing, or playing music on his piano. You can reach him via Twitter @synapticrob.

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