From kde-devel  Thu Aug 22 09:42:06 2019
From: Boudewijn Rempt <boud () valdyas ! org>
Date: Thu, 22 Aug 2019 09:42:06 +0000
To: kde-devel
Subject: Re: Portability of KDE Applications
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On donderdag 22 augustus 2019 11:38:21 CEST =D0=9D=D0=B8=D0=BA=D0=B8=D1=82=
=D0=B0 =D0=A1=D0=B8=D1=80=D0=B3=D0=B8=D0=B5=D0=BD=D0=BA=D0=BE wrote:
> > Are you only targeting Linux, or also other operating systems? For Linu=
x,
> > appimage probably is the best solution since it is the simplest for the=
 end
> > user.

> Well, we also trying to target on Windows - this is also bring other
> problems, but the application portability problems presents here too.

The qrc method helps quite a bit on Windows. For the rest, we assemble our =
deliverable using windeployqt which takes care of all the environment varia=
bles needed for Qt, and for our own plugins, we have special code so that g=
ets found relative to the exe; same for resources we cannot package in a qr=
c file.

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Boudewijn Rempt | https://www.valdyas.org | https://www.krita.org
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