qt5-starter-template

The boring boilerplate

Building

Prerequisites

• docker installation set up properly, to access the containers hosted at My Github Page
• git

Getting the sources

$ git clone https://github.com/saidinesh5/qt5-starter-template
$ cd qt5-starter-template

Build the package as an NSIS installer for Windows:

$ ./run-in-qt-build-environment.sh build_mingw32
$ ls build/artifacts/i686-w64-mingw32/
Qt5 Starter Template-0.0.0.0-installer.exe

Build the package an AppImage for Desktop Linux (x86_64):

$ ./run-in-qt-build-environment.sh build_linux64
$ ls build/artifacts/linux64/
Qt5_Starter_Template-89eed88-x86_64.AppImage

Build the apks for Android:

$ ./run-in-qt-build-environment.sh build_android
$  ls build/artifacts/android/
qt5-starter-template-arm64-v8a-debug.apk
qt5-starter-template-armeabi-v7a-debug.apk
qt5-starter-template-x86_64-debug.apk
qt5-starter-template-x86-debug.apk

Customizing the project for your own needs

• Most of the project specific names/variables are in CMakeLists.txt . Simply Customizing them should be sufficient.

project(qt5-starter-template LANGUAGES CXX)
set(APPLICATION_NAME "Qt5 Starter Template")
set(APPLICATION_COMPANY_NAME "Garage Research")
set(APPLICATION_WEBSITE "https://github.com/saidinesh5/qt5-starter-template")
set(APPLICATION_DESCRIPTION "Yet another Qt app")
set(APPLICATION_COPYRIGHT "Copyright 2021 Dinesh Manajipet")
set(APPLICATION_LICENSE "MIT License")
set(APPLICATION_ICON "${CMAKE_SOURCE_DIR}/resources/icon.ico")
set(APPLICATION_BANNER "${CMAKE_SOURCE_DIR}/resources/logo.bmp")

• For customizing Android side of things, do update android/AndroidManifest.xml . If you wish to update the android build tools, you may have to give user write permissions to /opt

Thanks to

• https://www.conjur.org/blog/building-a-windows-installer-from-a-linux-ci-pipeline/
• https://github.com/probonopd/linuxdeployqt and the AppImage project
• https://github.com/LaurentGomila/qt-android-cmake