I have been working on Qt for Mac OS-X and found it is quite different compare to Windows or Linux.
Mac is a very vast on its own and introduces many levels of security for user safety.
Let's have a look into 4 basic points about Qt in Mac OS-X.
I have used MacBook Pro, with OS X 10.8.4 and Qt version of 4.8
> Point 1 <
Qt installer comes as .DMG files, stands for Disk Image files. A DMG file is like a virtual DVD or hard drive. They can be “mounted” on your Mac in order to work with their contents, or even burned to an actual physical disc.
Right click on DMG file and chose "Open Wint > DiskImageMounter.app" or double click on DMG it should auto mount using DiskImageMounter, if it's your default image mounter application in Mac. Once the image is mounted, it is very easy to install Qt file from image.
> Point 2 <
Where all Qt gets installed in Mac?
This is little tough to explain. When I installed my Qt version 4.8.4, it got installed into many directories.
However, after installation, for qmake-query, I found this results,
QT_INSTALL_PREFIX:/
QT_INSTALL_DATA:/usr/local/Qt4.8
QT_INSTALL_DOCS:/Developer/Documentation/Qt
QT_INSTALL_HEADERS:/usr/include
QT_INSTALL_LIBS:/Library/Frameworks
QT_INSTALL_BINS:/Developer/Tools/Qt
QT_INSTALL_PLUGINS:/Developer/Applications/Qt/plugins
QT_INSTALL_IMPORTS:/Developer/Applications/Qt/imports
QT_INSTALL_TRANSLATIONS:/Developer/Applications/Qt/translations
QT_INSTALL_CONFIGURATION:/Library/Preferences/Qt
QT_INSTALL_EXAMPLES:/Developer/Examples/Qt/
QT_INSTALL_DEMOS:/Developer/Examples/Qt/Demos
QMAKE_MKSPECS:/usr/local/Qt4.8/mkspecs
QT_VERSION:4.8.4
Still it is difficult to say where all it got installed :)
> Point 3 <
How to deploy Qt application in Mac?
It is quite easy to deploy Qt applications in Mac, when it is dynamically built. Mac applications will have executable extension .APP. This .APP file is a special type of container [in other word folder] which will going to hold all Qt dependencies inside, for application to launch. Great thing is, the main executable will also be inside APP directory, here in this location,
MyDemo.app/Contents/MacOS/MyDemo
Let's build and deploy .app for MyDemo application.
Once you are able to successfully compile Qt application, Qt creates executable for your convenience.
If in case it is not created, just run below command,
sh-3.2# otool -L MyDemo.app/Contents/MacOS/MyDemo
After above step is done, we need to use a tool called install_name_tool.
Let's run these build scripts,
sh-3.2# mkdir -p MyDemo.app/Contents/Frameworks
sh-3.2# cp -R /Library/Frameworks/QtCore.framework MyDemo.app/Contents/Frameworks
sh-3.2# cp -R /Library/Frameworks/QtGui.framework MyDemo.app/Contents/Frameworks
Above two lines copy frameworks dynamic libraries into app Contents/Frameworks directory.
After copying Qt library into the bundle, we must update both the library and the executable so that they know where they can be found. This is where the install_name_tool command-line tool comes in handy. For the Qt library, run these two lines,
sh-3.2# install_name_tool -id @executable_path/../Frameworks/QtCore.framework/Version/4/QtCore MyDemo.app/Contents/Frameworks/QtCore.framework/Version/4/QtCore
sh-3.2# install_name_tool -id @executable_path/../Frameworks/QtGui.framework/Version/4/QtGui MyDemo.app/Contents/Frameworks/QtGui.framework/Version/4/QtGui
And for the executable,
sh-3.2# install_name_tool -change @executable_path/../Frameworks/QtCore.framework/Version/4/QtCore MyDemo.app/Contents/MacOS/MyDemo
sh-3.2# install_name_tool -change @executable_path/../Frameworks/QtGui.framework/Version/4/QtGui MyDemo.app/Contents/MacOS/MyDemo
Now that your application is ready to deploy. Just give MyDemo.app files as executable.
> Point 4 <
How to Un-Install Qt from Mac?
This is also a tough to explain. But I did below steps to un-install Qt from my MacBook.
For all below steps to execute, you must be super-user.
sh-3.2# cd /Applications/
sh-3.2# rm -r QtCreater.app/*
sh-3.2# rm -r QtCreater.app
sh-3.2# cd /Library/Frameworks/
sh-3.2# rm -r Qt*
sh-3.2# cd ~/Library/Preferences/
sh-3.2# rm com.qt*
sh-3.2# rm org.qt*
sh-3.2# cd /usr/local/
sh-3.2# rm -r Qt*
After all above steps, now run Qt un-installer located in /Developer/Tools/
sh-3.2# cd /Developer/Tools/
sh-3.2# ./uninstall-qt.py
This, hopefully, will going to un-install Qt successfully from your Mac Book.
Mac is a very vast on its own and introduces many levels of security for user safety.
Let's have a look into 4 basic points about Qt in Mac OS-X.
I have used MacBook Pro, with OS X 10.8.4 and Qt version of 4.8
> Point 1 <
Qt installer comes as .DMG files, stands for Disk Image files. A DMG file is like a virtual DVD or hard drive. They can be “mounted” on your Mac in order to work with their contents, or even burned to an actual physical disc.
Right click on DMG file and chose "Open Wint > DiskImageMounter.app" or double click on DMG it should auto mount using DiskImageMounter, if it's your default image mounter application in Mac. Once the image is mounted, it is very easy to install Qt file from image.
> Point 2 <
Where all Qt gets installed in Mac?
This is little tough to explain. When I installed my Qt version 4.8.4, it got installed into many directories.
However, after installation, for qmake-query, I found this results,
QT_INSTALL_PREFIX:/
QT_INSTALL_DATA:/usr/local/Qt4.8
QT_INSTALL_DOCS:/Developer/Documentation/Qt
QT_INSTALL_HEADERS:/usr/include
QT_INSTALL_LIBS:/Library/Frameworks
QT_INSTALL_BINS:/Developer/Tools/Qt
QT_INSTALL_PLUGINS:/Developer/Applications/Qt/plugins
QT_INSTALL_IMPORTS:/Developer/Applications/Qt/imports
QT_INSTALL_TRANSLATIONS:/Developer/Applications/Qt/translations
QT_INSTALL_CONFIGURATION:/Library/Preferences/Qt
QT_INSTALL_EXAMPLES:/Developer/Examples/Qt/
QT_INSTALL_DEMOS:/Developer/Examples/Qt/Demos
QMAKE_MKSPECS:/usr/local/Qt4.8/mkspecs
QT_VERSION:4.8.4
Still it is difficult to say where all it got installed :)
> Point 3 <
How to deploy Qt application in Mac?
It is quite easy to deploy Qt applications in Mac, when it is dynamically built. Mac applications will have executable extension .APP. This .APP file is a special type of container [in other word folder] which will going to hold all Qt dependencies inside, for application to launch. Great thing is, the main executable will also be inside APP directory, here in this location,
MyDemo.app/Contents/MacOS/MyDemo
Let's build and deploy .app for MyDemo application.
Once you are able to successfully compile Qt application, Qt creates executable for your convenience.
If in case it is not created, just run below command,
sh-3.2# otool -L MyDemo.app/Contents/MacOS/MyDemo
After above step is done, we need to use a tool called install_name_tool.
Let's run these build scripts,
sh-3.2# mkdir -p MyDemo.app/Contents/Frameworks
sh-3.2# cp -R /Library/Frameworks/QtCore.framework MyDemo.app/Contents/Frameworks
sh-3.2# cp -R /Library/Frameworks/QtGui.framework MyDemo.app/Contents/Frameworks
Above two lines copy frameworks dynamic libraries into app Contents/Frameworks directory.
After copying Qt library into the bundle, we must update both the library and the executable so that they know where they can be found. This is where the install_name_tool command-line tool comes in handy. For the Qt library, run these two lines,
sh-3.2# install_name_tool -id @executable_path/../Frameworks/QtCore.framework/Version/4/QtCore MyDemo.app/Contents/Frameworks/QtCore.framework/Version/4/QtCore
sh-3.2# install_name_tool -id @executable_path/../Frameworks/QtGui.framework/Version/4/QtGui MyDemo.app/Contents/Frameworks/QtGui.framework/Version/4/QtGui
And for the executable,
sh-3.2# install_name_tool -change @executable_path/../Frameworks/QtCore.framework/Version/4/QtCore MyDemo.app/Contents/MacOS/MyDemo
sh-3.2# install_name_tool -change @executable_path/../Frameworks/QtGui.framework/Version/4/QtGui MyDemo.app/Contents/MacOS/MyDemo
Now that your application is ready to deploy. Just give MyDemo.app files as executable.
> Point 4 <
How to Un-Install Qt from Mac?
This is also a tough to explain. But I did below steps to un-install Qt from my MacBook.
For all below steps to execute, you must be super-user.
sh-3.2# cd /Applications/
sh-3.2# rm -r QtCreater.app/*
sh-3.2# rm -r QtCreater.app
sh-3.2# cd /Library/Frameworks/
sh-3.2# rm -r Qt*
sh-3.2# cd ~/Library/Preferences/
sh-3.2# rm com.qt*
sh-3.2# rm org.qt*
sh-3.2# cd /usr/local/
sh-3.2# rm -r Qt*
After all above steps, now run Qt un-installer located in /Developer/Tools/
sh-3.2# cd /Developer/Tools/
sh-3.2# ./uninstall-qt.py
This, hopefully, will going to un-install Qt successfully from your Mac Book.
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