Standalone Qt Designer installation
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I develop applications with Netbeans on my Windows notebook for the Raspberry Pi and build them remotely on the Raspberry Pi. Now I also would like to develop some GUIs with Qt. Because of remote building I need neither MinGW nor Qt modules (RPi of course has everything necessary installed), only Qt Designer to edit the Qt Forms.
How can I install only the Qt Designer (and perhaps QT Linguist and Assistant) or at least with as little additional stuff as possible?
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Hi and welcome to devnet,
AFAIK, they are part of the standard desktop install.
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Technically, you can use Qt Creator for the designer and assistant part however there's currently no equivalent integration for Linguist.
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@SGaist said in Standalone Qt Designer installation:
Technically, you can use Qt Creator for the designer and assistant part however there's currently no equivalent integration for Linguist.
Netbeans provides such integration in a sense. It launches Qt designer and Qt Linguist for editing Qt Forms and Translations respectively, which in turn launch the Assisntant for documentation. Since this is not what I asked about I try to be more clear:
How can I install these 3 applications without installing builds, Qt Creator etc. which would waste over 1 GB of disk space?
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If you don't want to install either a MSVC or MinGW Qt, then the only option is to build Qt yourself which will take even more space.
Otherwise, just install a desktop Qt, extract the applications you want with their dependencies and uninstall the desktop Qt again.
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@SGaist said in Standalone Qt Designer installation:
If you don't want to install either a MSVC or MinGW Qt, then the only option is to build Qt yourself which will take even more space.
Otherwise, just install a desktop Qt, extract the applications you want with their dependencies and uninstall the desktop Qt again.
Ok, but how do I know what dependencies do they have? I wish the installer would be capable of doing that...
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IIRC they are in the bin folder so you already have everything needed. In fact you have everything need for all the applications to run so a bit more than these two requires. So as a quick and dirty solution, you can just keep the bin folder and its content.
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I also wanted to install just Qt Designer. Like you, I found it very difficult, without having to install gigabytes of other software. Out of this frustration, I created standalone installers for Qt Designer for Windows and Mac. Maybe you will find them useful.
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@mherrmann said in Standalone Qt Designer installation:
I also wanted to install just Qt Designer. Like you, I found it very difficult, without having to install gigabytes of other software. Out of this frustration, I created standalone installers for Qt Designer for Windows and Mac. Maybe you will find them useful.
Thanks for providing a standalone installer!
