How to write a deploy task?
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At the moment I've been using qmake to compile and run my project inside of the Qt Creator IDE. I'm at the point where I'd like to create a script to bundle up the files I've created to build an installer. Other IDEs I've used have had build environments that let you write additional tasks.
I'd like to create a target to compile a release build of my code, copy it and some relevant DLLs to a deployment directory and then run a script to bundle them into an installer. Can this be done using qmake? Would I be better writing a script that is run from the command line? Can this be integrated into the IDE in any way?
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Hi
well there is the
https://doc.qt.io/qt-5/windows-deployment.html
Windows Deployment Tool
that you can run. -
Thanks, but my question wasn't about deploy tools as much as it was about extending the Qt Creator IDE with perhaps a scripting language? Writing a deployment task is simply the most immediate thing I would like to do with it.
@kitfox
well qmake can already call command/shell scripts so that goes a long way to automating stuff.However, Since QtCreator is plugin based, you can write a plugin that can utilize its data model for various tasks.
Python should work fine for a scripting language since it already has Qt bindings.
Would be pretty cool but would take quite some work.https://doc-snapshots.qt.io/qtcreator-extending/creating-plugins.html
