Sign Up to our social questions and Answers Engine to ask questions, answer people’s questions, and connect with other people.
Login to our social questions & Answers Engine to ask questions answer people’s questions & connect with other people.
Lost your password? Please enter your email address. You will receive a link and will create a new password via email.
Please briefly explain why you feel this question should be reported.
Please briefly explain why you feel this answer should be reported.
Please briefly explain why you feel this user should be reported.
I’m new to C++ and Qt but I’ve managed to make a simple test program and I was wondering how can I deploy it to other operating systems? Right now I’m on a Mac so how can I make it run on my PC? I’ve tried to find some answers but the only answers I’ve seen is how to deploy them already on Windows. Thanks for the help.
Easiest way is to run Windows somehow and compile & build a distribution there. You can use a virtual machine (VMWare/Parallells, slow) or dual-boot (faster), or a separate windows PC altogether.
A VM is a good thing to have anyhow when you want to test your deployment, as it’s easy to wipe the machine and re-run the installation.
By using Qt’s qmake, you’ll get the build done easily enough on other OS:es (or use Qt Creator).
There’s also the option of using the CMake/CPack tools instead, as these give you build-anywhere files, as well as multi-platform packaging with a single config file.