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I write commercial applications in Qt/C++ for Windows and Mac. People do ask me about Linux versions. It would be relatively straightforward to port the code to
by hermitcrab 5y ago
I write commercial applications in Qt/C++ for Windows and Mac. People do ask me about Linux versions. It would be relatively straightforward to port the code to Linux. But the mess of different distributions and libraries really puts me off.
Is anyone here distributing a commercial Qt/C++ app on Linux? Are you using Flatpak or something else?
- cromka 5y agoJust use AppImage. They can download it as-is from your website and simply run locally. No need to deal with distributions and their package managers. EDIT: if you use CMake, which I guess you do, you can integrated it using CPack and an external generator: https://github.com/AppImage/AppImageKit/issues/160#issuecomment-813069225 https://github.com/AppImage/AppImageKit/issues/160#issuecomm...
- hermitcrab 5y agoI will put AppImage on my todo list to check out. Thanks. I still use qmake (old school!).
- jcelerier 5y agoVouching for AppImage too, I ship https://ossia.io https://ossia.io like that
- hermitcrab 5y agoOssia looks impressive. Does it use Qt or some other GUI library?
- jcelerier 5y agoYes, it uses Qt for the GUI. Thanks ^_^
- hermitcrab 5y agoI am very out-of-the-loop on Linux. Your download page says: "Your system must have at least glibc-2.17, as well as X11, ALSA, libGL, librt, libdbus." What rough percentage of modern Linux computers would you say that covers? 99%, 90%, 50%?
- jcelerier 5y agoShould be very close from 90%. Anything >= Ubuntu 14.04 (just tested it quickly through docker) or CentOS 7 (on which the builds are done) should work