Summary

Whether your application can be easily installed and used on a target computer or not, it can mean winning or losing a significant number of users. Especially with the ones that are not professional users, you must make sure to create and deploy installers that contain all of the required dependencies and work out of the box on the target platform. In this chapter, we talked a fair amount about just that. We learned about the build process and how the linking method that we choose can completely alter the deployment experience. We learned about existing Qt tools to simplify the deployment process on Windows and macOS. Note that these tools contain many more parameters than we saw in this chapter, and they are worth taking a deeper look at by yourself, and trying out various parameters to see their effect for yourself. In the last section of this chapter, we learned about Qt Installer Framework and also created a simple installer by using it. We learned how to create packages that...