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Makes Linux applications self-contained by copying in the libraries and plugins that the application uses, and optionally generates an AppImage. Can be used for Qt and other applications
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"Error: Qt license file was not found!" when Qt from using qt.io #208

Open probonopd opened 6 years ago

probonopd commented 6 years ago 
qmake CONFIG+=release CONFIG+=force_debug_info linuxdeployqt.pro
Error: Qt license file was not found!
Project ERROR: License check failed! Giving up ...

Reference: https://travis-ci.org/probonopd/linuxdeployqt/builds/326146746#L2280-L2280

probonopd commented 6 years ago

According to ddubya on #qt on irc.freenode.net, http://download.qt.io/online/qtsdkrepository/linux_x64/desktop/qt5_5100/qt.qt5.5100.gcc_64/ is "the commercial version" which cannot be used in GPL mode.

Seemingly the GPL version is not available in individual subcomponents but only as a 1G archive at https://download.qt.io/archive/qt/5.10/5.10.0/qt-opensource-linux-x64-5.10.0.run. As a workaround, we would need to download and repackage that (possibly as a squashfs file, even).

BUT https://download.qt.io/archive/online_installers/3.0/qt-unified-linux-x64-3.0.2-online.run can install in "open source mode" if no credentials are entered. So it must be doing some "black magic"...

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I can never get it to install though... If it did, I could compare with xxd pre- and post- installation.

probonopd commented 6 years ago

Turns out that in gcc_64/mkspecs/qconfig.pri one must change: QT_EDITION = OpenSource