Get to know the Qt Installer Framework
summary
A practical tour of the Qt Installer Framework that shows what gets built and how it behaves: a single-file offline installer is produced with binarycreator from a global config.xml and per-package package.xml, while online repositories are generated with repogen and served for updates. It runs on Windows, macOS and Linux, handles complex versioned dependencies across thousands of packages (Qt SDK: ~1,500 enterprise packages), embeds JavaScript/QML scripts for custom operations (extract, shortcuts, execute), and the generated installers and maintenance tool demonstrably work for install, update and uninstall.
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chapters (9)
- 0:00Introduction to the speaker
- 1:26Why the framework was built
- 5:09Key framework features
- 7:12Creating an offline installer
- 11:10Online vs offline installers
- 12:37Package metadata and scripting
- 16:19Advanced scripting examples
- 18:56Control scripts and updates
- 21:25Q&A and concluding remarks
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