[CMake] problems with DeployQt4 ?

[James Sutherland]

Has anyone used DeployQt4 successfully?
James


On Thu, Jan 5, 2012 at 12:44 PM, James Sutherland <James.Sutherland at utah.edu
> wrote:

> I am eager to use DeployQt4 because of the complexity of creating
> applications.
>
> This is a snippet of what I currently have:
>
> -------------- <snip> ------------
>   if( APPLE )
>     set(GUI_TYPE MACOSX_BUNDLE)
>     set( app_postfix ".app" )
>     set( plugin_dest_dir bin/${appName}${app_postfix}/Contents/MacOS)
>     set( qtconf_dest_dir bin/${appName}${app_postfix}/Contents/Resources)
>     set( MACOSX_BUNDLE_ICON_FILE appIcon.icns )
>     set_source_files_properties(
> ${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}/images/appIcon.icns PROPERTIES
> MACOSX_PACKAGE_LOCATION Resource )
>   endif()
>
>   add_executable( ${appName} ${GUI_TYPE}
>     ${util_src}
>     ${gui_src}
>     ${gui_headers}
>     ${gui_headers_moc}
>     ${gui_forms_headers}
>     ${gui_resources_rcc}
>     )
>
>   target_link_libraries( ${appName} ${QT_LIBRARIES} )
>
>   install( TARGETS ${appName} COMPONENT Runtime DESTINATION "bin" )
>
>   include(CPack)
>   include( InstallRequiredSystemLibraries )
>
>   if( APPLE OR WIN32 )
>     # must have CMAKE 2.8.7 or later
>     string( COMPARE GREATER ${CMAKE_VERSION} 2.8.6 VERSION_OK )
>     if( ${VERSION_OK} )
>       include( DeployQt4 )  # requires cmake 2.8.7 or later
>       set( PLUGINS qico;qtiff;qsvgicon )
>       message( STATUS "QT PLUGINS: ${QTPLUGINS}" )
>       install_qt4_executable( bin/${appName}${app_postfix} "${PLUGINS}" )
>     endif()
>   endif()
> ------------ </snip> ---------------
>
> On my Mac, the install completes without errors, but the executable just
> pops up a crash dialogue that doesn't mean anything to me.
>
> One interesting observation is that the PLUGINS are not properly set in
> the call to install_qt4_executable.  Output from cmake:
>
> -- fixup_qt4_executable
> --   executable='/Users/james/tmp/expr/bin/CreateExpr_1.0-0.app'
> --   qtplugins=''
> --   libs=''
> --   dirs='/opt/local/lib'
> --   plugins_dir=''
> --   request_qt_conf=''
> -- Writing
> /Users/james/tmp/expr/bin/CreateExpr_1.0-0.app/Contents/Resources/qt.conf
> -- fixup_bundle
> --   app='/Users/james/tmp/expr/bin/CreateExpr_1.0-0.app'
> --   libs=''
> --   dirs='/opt/local/lib'
>
>
> I am confused at why "qtplugins" is empty.  I have tried variations of how
> I pass PLUGINS to the install_qt4_executable() function, but no joy.
>
> Also, the "installed" app bundle has a few more things than the locally
> built one, but is missing a Frameworks directory, for example.
>
> Any ideas as to what I am doing wrong?
>
> James
>
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