From e05137fe501e9536e15b1980c936af771e9518db Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Peter Yard Date: Mon, 19 Oct 2009 15:33:23 +1000 Subject: Additional documentation added to deployment.qdoc which lists the process and links to the original MSDN pages which describe it in full. --- doc/src/deployment/deployment.qdoc | 25 +++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 25 insertions(+) diff --git a/doc/src/deployment/deployment.qdoc b/doc/src/deployment/deployment.qdoc index f2bae23..b5b1b9c 100644 --- a/doc/src/deployment/deployment.qdoc +++ b/doc/src/deployment/deployment.qdoc @@ -345,6 +345,7 @@ are many ways to solve this: \list + \o You can install the Qt libraries in one of the system library paths (e.g. \c /usr/lib on most systems). @@ -804,6 +805,30 @@ compiler version against the same C runtime version. This prevents deploying errors caused by different versions of the C runtime libraries. + \section2 Visual Studio 2008 And Manual Installs + + As well as the above details for VS 2005 and onwards, Visual Studio 2008 + applications may have problems when deploying manually, say to a USB + stick. + + The recommended procedure is to configure Qt with the \c -plugin-manifests + option using the 'configure' tool. Then follow the \l {http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms235291(VS.80).aspx}{guidelines} + for manually deploying private assemblies. + + In brief the steps are + + \list 1 + + \o create a folder structure on the development computer that will match the target USB stick directory structure, for example '\\app' and for your dlls, '\\app\\lib'. + + \o on the development computer, from the appropriate 'redist' folder copy over Microsoft.VC80.CRT and Microsoft.VC80.MFC to the directories '\\app' and '\\app\\lib' on the development PC. + + \o xcopy the \\app folder to the target USB stick. + \endlist + + Your application should now run. Also be aware that even with a service + pack installed the Windows DLLs that are linked to will be the defaults. See + the information on \l {http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc664727.aspx}{how to select the appropriate target DLLs}. \section1 Application Dependencies -- cgit v0.12