Shipping third party libraries in installation package

[Teeuwe]

I am making a program for my thesis at school, and it is supposed to be cross platform, now I wanted to be able to show a pdf page in Qt itself. Ive been looking around and it seems that poppler is the thing I need. But how do I make the program so it actually includes the code(library) I need to show the pdf, instead of installing poppler. (I want to be able to make 1 installation file which installs my program with poppler included, instead of installing poppler seperatly on the system.

[divanov]

Is it Windows?

[Teeuwe]

Is it Windows?

As I said, it is supposed to be cross platform. So it should work on windows + mac (and preferably but not specificly linux). I myself program on windows

[Maveric]

Hi Teeuwe,

Please check out this post, might be of help to you:
http://lists.freedesktop.org/archive...ch/004499.html

Best Regards,
Marko

[divanov]

You should know that this is not possible to have one installer, which will work on Mac OS, Linux and Windows.

[Teeuwe]

You should know that this is not possible to have one installer, which will work on Mac OS, Linux and Windows.

think you are missing the point. I want to make an installer. This should install everything: My program and poppler(thats what I mean with 1 installer=> instead of having to install my program and poppler seperatly). I would have different installation files for the different OS'es

Hi Teeuwe,

Please check out this post, might be of help to you:
http://lists.freedesktop.org/archive...ch/004499.html

Best Regards,
Marko

Hmm, it seems that this will work on my pc, but will I be able to package my program with the poppler program after its complete? (where would I find the libs for qt so I can put them in the installation files too). Sorry,I'm fairly new to C++, I'm coming from Java(dont blaim me, blaim my school)

[divanov]

think you are missing the point.

Thank you for your assessment.

I want to make an installer. This should install everything: My program and poppler(thats what I mean with 1 installer=> instead of having to install my program and poppler seperatly). I would have different installation files for the different OS'es

Then it means you will have three (two) different installers: for Windows, for Mac OS and optionally for Linux.
All three systems have their own tools for making installation binaries.

P.S. Linux the most likely already have Poppler, so its doubtful that you need to ship it separately.

[Teeuwe]

Thank you for your assessment.


Then it means you will have three (two) different installers: for Windows, for Mac OS and optionally for Linux.
All three systems have their own tools for making installation binaries.

P.S. Linux the most likely already have Poppler, so its doubtful that you need to ship it separately.

Ah ok, so there is no way to include an entire library like in java, where you just download the library online and add it in a subdirectory of the project? You have to specifiy in the installers (like NSYS, Bitrock...) that it should install other libraries too?

[divanov]

Ah ok, so there is no way to include an entire library like in java, where you just download the library online and add it in a subdirectory of the project?

I think you are missing the point.

You have to specifiy in the installers (like NSYS, Bitrock...) that it should install other libraries too?

Definitely you have to. Probably Bitrock's InstallBuilder covers all platforms of your interest, but it's proprietary.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...ation_software

[Teeuwe]

Could anyone maybe send me the binaries for poppler for windows? Because I don't seem to be able to make them myself :/. (Or if anyone has a good guide on how to make poppler binaries for Qt 4).