Why is publishing currently not possible for project?

[kalster]

In qt creator and at the main menu >> build >> publish project, i get a message that publishing is currently not possible for project. Is there some additional software that i need to download to get publish project to work?

[tobias.hunger]

What do you want to publish? Where do you want to publish to? For which platforms do you want to publish?

[kalster]

I want to publish a small program to the windows os

[piy9]

I am facing the same problem. I am using QT SDK 5.0.1. I want to publish an app for the WINDOWS OS. Please help in resolving the error.

[qxoz]

Hi kalster!
What are you mean by publishing? What are you expect from that?

[sl.sy.ifm]

hmm maybe it is related to this:
http://qt-project.org/doc/qtcreator-2.5/creator-publish-ovi.html

so, maybe it is an old (Nokia time) feature of creator, only usable for Symbian-, MeeGo- and Maemo-projects?

Till now I ignored the menu entry :) ... but I think it's not really nice to have it in there without any helpful GUI-text (especially the dialog includes a "What's This"-button, but no such infos set on the controls) ...

strange, I just checked it on a old Creator (last "Nokia" QtSDK) and there isn't such an entry ...

[tobias.hunger]

Publishing was only ever (partially) supported for the Symbian and Meego phone stores. Those are gone, so the functionality is currently unused in Qt Creator.

We left the code in since we Creator is used in other SDKs but ours and we did not want to break their code:-)

[qxoz]

Maybe kalster talk about deployment of Qt apps?

[piy9]

If I make an app on QT, how can I run it on some other computer?

lets say that I make an app on my computer, how can I send the built app to my friend over the internet?(I mean..the app should run on his machine even if he doesn't have QT installed in his computer)

[qxoz]

Look at "deployment":http://qt-project.org/doc/qt-4.8/deployment.html
it is different for "Qt5":http://qt-project.org/doc/qt-5.0/qtdoc/deployment-windows.html

[sl.sy.ifm]

[quote author="qxoz" date="1366115524"]Look at "deployment":http://qt-project.org/doc/qt-4.8/deployment.html
it is different for "Qt5":http://qt-project.org/doc/qt-5.0/qtdoc/deployment-windows.html[/quote]

you linked the windows-specific page for qt5 ... there is also a main page: "Qt5: Deploying Qt Applications":http://qt-project.org/doc/qt-5.0/qtdoc/deployment.html

deployment of Qt applications is definitely not trivial (especially on windows)
I also sometimes thought it would be nice to have a tool that could bundle everything with the needed dlls ... but it seems it was not yet done

[qxoz]

[quote author="sl.sy.ifm" date="1366118770"]
I also sometimes thought it would be nice to have a tool that could bundle everything with the needed dlls ... but it seems it was not yet done[/quote]

Unfortunately for now there are no such tool, but you can use (for Windows) "http://www.dependencywalker.com/":http://www.dependencywalker.com/ with "Qt-Installer-Framework":http://qt-project.org/wiki/Qt-Installer-Framework