Desktop Clock

Customizable desktop clock widget written in Qt5 framework.

Building Installer with Qt Creator (Windows)

To get started make sure you have all the following requirements and after that open desktop-clock project with Qt Creator.

Requirements

• Qt 5
• Qt Creator
• Qt Installer Framework 3
• Git

Submodules

desktop-clock project uses submodule itay-grudev/SingleApplication to enchant application with singleton implementation.

Make sure that you have pulled all submodules before build phase, you can do this by using command:

git submodule update --init --recursive

Build Settings

You can monitor build process by keeping Compile Output (Alt + 4) tab open in Qt Creator, it is very useful in case something goes wrong and you need to see error messages.

• Start by navigating to Projects and make sure that Active Project is set to desktop-clock in side menu.
• Under the Build Settings header there is dropdown with label Edit build configuration, change this to be release.
• Next thing to do is to disable/untick Shadow build option, by doing so Qt Creator will use project folder as destination folder.

Now you are ready to start adding Custom Process Steps, you can add them by clicking caret in dropdown that has text Add Build Step inside, after dropdown opens select Custom Process Step, this gives you a new form to fill up.

Custom Process Step (windeployqt.exe)

• Command

  For field with label Command first thing to do is to locate windeployqt.exe on your filesystem. If this binary exists in your environment's PATH variable then you can just enter the name of the binary without any leading directories.

  This binary is usually located at {Qt Directory}\{Qt Version}\{Compiler Directory}\bin\windeployqt.exe

• Arguments

  For field with label Arguments enter following value: installer\packages\eu.murda.desktopclock\data\desktop-clock.exe

• Working directory

  For field with label Working directory make sure that value is set to %{buildDir}, it usually is by default.

Custom Process Step (binarycreator.exe)

• Command

  For field with label Command first thing to do is to locate binarycreator.exe on your filesystem. If this binary exists in your environment's PATH variable then you can just enter name of the binary without any leading directories.

  This binary is usually located at {Qt Directory}\Tools\QtInstallerFramework\3.{*}\bin\binarycreator.exe

• Arguments

  For field with label Arguments enter following value: --offline-only -c installer\config\config.xml -p installer\packages installer\DesktopClockInstaller.exe

• Working directory

  For field with label Working directory make sure that value is set to %{buildDir}, it usually is by default.

Custom Process Step (upx.exe) [OPTIONAL]

This step is completely optional, but by adding this step your final installer file will be much smaller in size.

You can download upx.exe binary from here: https://upx.github.io

• Command

  For field with label Command first thing to do is to locate upx.exe on your filesystem. If this binary exists in your environment's PATH variable the you can just enter name of the binary without any leading directories.

• Arguments

  For field with label Arguments enter following value: -9 installer\DesktopClockInstaller.exe

• Working directory

  For field with label Working directory make sure that value is set to %{buildDir}, it usually is by default.

Final Output

Final installer file will be located in directory installer and named DesktopClockInstaller.exe.