CMake install(IMPORTED_RUNTIME_ARTIFACTS ?

[Perdrix]

I added this to my CMakeLists.txt on Linux to get the Qt6 libraries copied to my install directory

install(IMPORTED_RUNTIME_ARTIFACTS
Qt6::Core
Qt6::Gui
Qt6::Widgets
Qt6::Network
Qt6::DBus
Qt6::OpenGLWidgets
)
That indeed copies the libraries into the install directory and modifies the application rpath:

-- Install configuration: "Debug"
-- Up-to-date: /home/amonra/.vs/DSS/Linux/x64/Debug/./libQt6Core.so.6.8.0
-- Up-to-date: /home/amonra/.vs/DSS/Linux/x64/Debug/./libQt6Core.so.6
-- Up-to-date: /home/amonra/.vs/DSS/Linux/x64/Debug/./libQt6Gui.so.6.8.0
-- Up-to-date: /home/amonra/.vs/DSS/Linux/x64/Debug/./libQt6Gui.so.6
-- Up-to-date: /home/amonra/.vs/DSS/Linux/x64/Debug/./libQt6Widgets.so.6.8.0
-- Up-to-date: /home/amonra/.vs/DSS/Linux/x64/Debug/./libQt6Widgets.so.6
-- Up-to-date: /home/amonra/.vs/DSS/Linux/x64/Debug/./libQt6Network.so.6.8.0
-- Up-to-date: /home/amonra/.vs/DSS/Linux/x64/Debug/./libQt6Network.so.6
-- Up-to-date: /home/amonra/.vs/DSS/Linux/x64/Debug/./libQt6DBus.so.6.8.0
-- Up-to-date: /home/amonra/.vs/DSS/Linux/x64/Debug/./libQt6DBus.so.6
-- Up-to-date: /home/amonra/.vs/DSS/Linux/x64/Debug/./libQt6OpenGLWidgets.so.6.8.0
-- Up-to-date: /home/amonra/.vs/DSS/Linux/x64/Debug/./libQt6OpenGLWidgets.so.6
-- Installing: /home/amonra/.vs/DSS/Linux/x64/Debug/./DeepSkyStacker
-- Set non-toolchain portion of runtime path of "/home/amonra/.vs/DSS/Linux/x64/Debug/./DeepSkyStacker" to "$ORIGIN:$ORIGIN/"

Unfortunately it didn't copy (at least) libicui18n.so.73 which is also in the Qt libs directory, and probably some others as well, so I get:

error while loading shared libraries: libicui18n.so.73: cannot open shared object file

How should I do this please? I'm not planning to use linuxdeployqt ATM.

Thanks
David

[Perdrix]

If found a recent addition to Qt that does pretty much what I want (though it adds more Qt libraries than are necessary - I think it just copies them all :( ). It is qt_generate_deploy_app_script

Here's the complete code from my CMakeLists.txt file showing the both the non-Linux and the Linux path:

if(NOT LINUX)
    set (deploy_tool_options_arg "")
    if(APPLE)
        set(deploy_tool_options_arg "${deploy_tool_options_arg} --hardened-runtime")
    elseif(WIN32)
        set(deploy_tool_options_arg "${deploy_tool_options_arg} --pdb")
    endif()

    # Generate a deployment script to be executed at install time
    # App bundles on macOS have an .app suffix
    if(APPLE)
        set(executable_path "$<TARGET_FILE_NAME:DeepSkyStacker>.app")
    else()
        message ("Target filename:"  $<TARGET_FILE_NAME:DeepSkyStacker>)
        set(executable_path "${CMAKE_INSTALL_BINDIR}/$<TARGET_FILE_NAME:DeepSkyStacker>")
    endif()
    message ("executable_path: " ${executable_path})
    message ("deploy tools options arg: " ${deploy_tool_options_arg})
     qt_generate_deploy_script(
         TARGET DeepSkyStacker
         OUTPUT_SCRIPT deploy_script
         CONTENT "
     qt_deploy_runtime_dependencies(
         EXECUTABLE \"${executable_path}\"
         DEPLOY_TOOL_OPTIONS ${deploy_tool_options_arg}
     )"
     )
else()
qt_generate_deploy_app_script(
    TARGET ${PROJECT_NAME}
    OUTPUT_SCRIPT deploy_script
    DEPLOY_TOOL_OPTIONS ${deploy_tool_options_arg}
)
endif()
install (SCRIPT ${deploy_script})

install(TARGETS ${PROJECT_NAME})

Be warned if you are using the Visual Studio Linux workload: It invokes CMake on Linux with

-DCMAKE_SYSTEM_NAME:STRING=“Linux”

which is a big "no-no". It results in CMAKE_CROSSCOMPILING being set to TRUE which results in qt_generate_deploy_app_script refusing to play.

See: https://developercommunity.visualstudio.com/t/Using-CMake-with-Linux-Workload-the-bui/10813104

David

[SamiV123]

How about just using cp either directly or in a script ?

[Perdrix]

If found a recent addition to Qt that does pretty much what I want (though it adds more Qt libraries than are necessary - I think it just copies them all :( ). It is qt_generate_deploy_app_script

Here's the complete code from my CMakeLists.txt file showing the both the non-Linux and the Linux path:

if(NOT LINUX)
    set (deploy_tool_options_arg "")
    if(APPLE)
        set(deploy_tool_options_arg "${deploy_tool_options_arg} --hardened-runtime")
    elseif(WIN32)
        set(deploy_tool_options_arg "${deploy_tool_options_arg} --pdb")
    endif()

    # Generate a deployment script to be executed at install time
    # App bundles on macOS have an .app suffix
    if(APPLE)
        set(executable_path "$<TARGET_FILE_NAME:DeepSkyStacker>.app")
    else()
        message ("Target filename:"  $<TARGET_FILE_NAME:DeepSkyStacker>)
        set(executable_path "${CMAKE_INSTALL_BINDIR}/$<TARGET_FILE_NAME:DeepSkyStacker>")
    endif()
    message ("executable_path: " ${executable_path})
    message ("deploy tools options arg: " ${deploy_tool_options_arg})
     qt_generate_deploy_script(
         TARGET DeepSkyStacker
         OUTPUT_SCRIPT deploy_script
         CONTENT "
     qt_deploy_runtime_dependencies(
         EXECUTABLE \"${executable_path}\"
         DEPLOY_TOOL_OPTIONS ${deploy_tool_options_arg}
     )"
     )
else()
qt_generate_deploy_app_script(
    TARGET ${PROJECT_NAME}
    OUTPUT_SCRIPT deploy_script
    DEPLOY_TOOL_OPTIONS ${deploy_tool_options_arg}
)
endif()
install (SCRIPT ${deploy_script})

install(TARGETS ${PROJECT_NAME})

Be warned if you are using the Visual Studio Linux workload: It invokes CMake on Linux with

-DCMAKE_SYSTEM_NAME:STRING=“Linux”

which is a big "no-no". It results in CMAKE_CROSSCOMPILING being set to TRUE which results in qt_generate_deploy_app_script refusing to play.

See: https://developercommunity.visualstudio.com/t/Using-CMake-with-Linux-Workload-the-bui/10813104

David

[Redman]

First do in root cmakelists

set(CMAKE_INSTALL_BINDIR ${CMAKE_BINARY_DIR}/deploy)
set(CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX ${CMAKE_INSTALL_BINDIR})

then in target specific cmakelists do

    install(TARGETS ${target}
        RUNTIME DESTINATION  ${CMAKE_INSTALL_BINDIR}
    )

followed by the one that suits your needs
1.

	qt_generate_deploy_qml_app_script(
		TARGET ${target}
		OUTPUT_SCRIPT deploy_script
	)
	install(SCRIPT ${deploy_script})

or
2.

	qt_generate_deploy_app_script(
		TARGET ${target}
		OUTPUT_SCRIPT deploy_script
	)
	install(SCRIPT ${deploy_script})

If you are using ninja, like me, you can add a custom build step

And your app will be deployed into your bindir/deploy

Really convenient.

I wrapped all this in some cmake functions so in the end I only do this for each target.

# Define install and deploy sequence
f_install(${PROJECT_NAME})
f_deploy_qml_app(${PROJECT_NAME})