Solved How to command line build a proper dmg from a Qt app
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Just use a recent version of
macdeployqt
. The option is-fs
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Looks like
-fs
did somthing with filestystem. I can see it logged the follwing extra thing. But its still the same issueLog: Image will use "HFS+"
But, If I open
MyApp/MyApp.app/Contents/MacOS/MyApp
then it complains the following on console and gives up with a crashQQmlApplicationEngine failed to load component qrc:/qml/main.qml:1 module "QtQuick" is not installed qrc:/qml/main.qml:4 module "QtWebView" is not installed qrc:/qml/main.qml:2 module "QtQuick.Window" is not installed qrc:/qml/main.qml:3 module "QtQuick.Controls" is not installed qrc:/qml/main.qml:1 module "QtQuick" is not installed qrc:/qml/main.qml:4 module "QtWebView" is not installed qrc:/qml/main.qml:2 module "QtQuick.Window" is not installed qrc:/qml/main.qml:3 module "QtQuick.Controls" is not installed qrc:/qml/main.qml:1 module "QtQuick" is not installed qrc:/qml/main.qml:4 module "QtWebView" is not installed qrc:/qml/main.qml:2 module "QtQuick.Window" is not installed qrc:/qml/main.qml:3 module "QtQuick.Controls" is not installed qrc:/qml/main.qml:1 module "QtQuick" is not installed qrc:/qml/main.qml:4 module "QtWebView" is not installed qrc:/qml/main.qml:2 module "QtQuick.Window" is not installed qrc:/qml/main.qml:3 module "QtQuick.Controls" is not installed [1] 57951 segmentation fault /Volumes/MyApp/MyApp.app/Contents/MacOS/MyApp
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You did not use the
qmldir
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@SGaist
Ah superb ! This made a difference. Now if I doubled clicked on the dmg and openedMyApp/MyApp.app/Contents/MacOS/MyApp
that is inside it. It works and I am able to launch my app.Thanks a lot till here.
But I am still curious why just double clicking on
MyApp
dies not work? Why do I have to runMyApp/MyApp.app/Contents/MacOS/MyApp
instead of justMyApp
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Do you have any error message ?
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@SGaist
The error message says following with a pop upYou can’t open the application “MyApp.app” because it is not
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Are you using a pre-built version of Qt to build your application ?
By the way, why not use a more recent version of 5.9 ?
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Do you mean 5.9.6 ? I am using 5.9.4 but this error occurs even if I build with
5.11.2
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Can you show your .pro file ?
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My .pro file has so many things which is due to multiple stuff and it would not make much sense to share it here. But I have set
QMAKE_MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET = 10.12
andQML_IMPORT_PATH
is set to nothing. Plus, following are some more settings I have in my .pro which might be relevant to this questionCONFIG += c++14 CONFIG -= bitcode
I am marking this Topic as solved. Do let me know if have a suggestion on this last error.