How to have a custom icon for my application.exe/executable QT, i used Visual Studio 2019

learnist

I wanted to have a custom icon for my application.exe executable , i have also tried referring this documentation https://doc.qt.io/qt-5/appicon.html, but i didn't use QT-Creator to create my project,so i don't have the .pro file to make any changes, i have used Visual Studio 2019 to work on my project and complete it.

How can i set a custom icon when i used Visual studio 2019 ?

Christian Ehrlicher

@learnist said in How to have a custom icon for my application.exe/executable QT, i used Visual Studio 2019:

ut i didn't use QT-Creator to create my project,

So what do you actually use?
You have to create a .rc file - no matter what build system you're using. See e.g. here: https://forum.qt.io/topic/81519/how-to-set-the-application-icon-on-windows-using-cmake

learnist

@Christian-Ehrlicher i can definately create a .rc file but how to add it in pro file, i dont have .pro , right ?

Christian Ehrlicher

If you don't use a pro file or CMake script you have to add it by your own similar you're calling e.g. uic or moc - see the msdn documentation.

SimonSchroeder

Actually, this question is not Qt-related. It works for Qt as for any other software not using Qt. I, personally, don't know how to setup VS2019 properly to do this. What you could try, though, is to make a small dummy qmake project, set RC_ICON appropriately, compile it and have a look at the makefile. If your .pro-file has TARGET=MyProject, qmake will generate a MyProject_resource.rc. This needs to be compiled with Visual Studios rc resulting in a .res-file. I guess, this is then just linked in. At least this is the way qmake does it and you can take the steps from its makefile.