Packaging for iOS

Packaging a Qt application for iOS relies on XCode. When you build and run gallery-mobile from Qt Creator, XCode will be called under the hood. In the end, an .xcodeproj file is generated and passed to XCode.

Knowing this, the packaging part will be fairly limited. The only thing that can be automated is the generation of the .xcodeproj file.

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

Name	Example
QTDIR_IOS	$HOME/Qt/5.11/ios

Create scripts/package-ios.sh and add the following code snippet to it:

#!/bin/bash 
 
DIST_DIR=dist/mobile-ios 
BUILD_DIR=build 
 
mkdir -p $DIST_DIR && cd $DIST_DIR 
mkdir -p $BIN_DIR $LIB_DIR $BUILD_DIR 
 
pushd $BUILD_DIR 
$QTDIR_IOS/bin/qmake \ 
  -spec macx-ios-clang \ 
  "CONFIG += release iphoneos device" \ 
  ../../../ch13-gallery-packaging.pro 
make...