Creating a Deployment of Gamma Ray on Windows

[brycegbrazen]

Hi all,

I was curious if anyone could guide me through the deployment process for Gamma Ray on Windows. I have done a development install of Gamma Ray by running the following commands listed in the INSTALL.md file:

    cmake -G Ninja -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/path/where/to/install ../path/to/gammaray
    cmake --build .
    cmake --build . --target install

However, when I try to double click the created gammaray-launcher.exe I'm greeted with errors like this:

I'm pretty new to building C++ projects so I'm not exactly sure what the issue is, but I know that the application is not finding the Qt libraries it needs (which I assume should be provided by bundled DLLs?).

I want to make a deployment of Gamma Ray that is fully standalone and that can be run just by double clicking on the executable in the File Explorer.

I found some information about an executable bundled with Qt called windeployqt but I'm not sure if I should be using that to get a standalone deployment of Gamma Ray or if so, how I should go about using it.

[mattkdab]

Can you paste the version and location of Qt on your system?

[brycegbrazen]

I've got Qt 5.15 installed, and I have it installed at C:\Qt515.

[Waqar144]

Hi, how you choose to package GammaRay is upto you. If you want to bundle Qt libs with the app or want to use a third party tool, sure. We can help with build errors or any bugs you encounter in GammaRay.

For questions about windeployqt I would suggest talking to windeployqt guys directly.

[brycegbrazen]

@Waqar144 Could we put a little snippet in the INSTALL.md file that mentions that packaging Gamma Ray is up to the user? I feel like adding this information there would be helpful.