Distributing Qt4-Applications as Binaries

[finr]

Hi all!

I just finished an application using Qt4 and I'd really like to distribute it as a binary, so those guys that use it (mostly new to Linux) can use it without having to compile it.
In Windows I can just drop Qt4Gui.dll and Qt4Core.dll as well as a .dll from MinGW into the application's directory and it runs fine, but in Linux copying those files to the applications directory doesn't really help, they still can't be found. If I start the application using LD_LIBRARY_PATH=. I guess it would find those libraries, but of course all the others (libc, etc) are missing than.. Is there an easy way to make the application find those files? If not, how can I link the Qt libraries statically to the executable?

Thanks very much..
Rainer.

[tomvollerthun]

If I start the application using LD_LIBRARY_PATH=. I guess it would find those libraries, but of course all the others (libc, etc) are missing than.

If that is an option, you could use this: LD_LIBRARY_PATH=.:"$LD_LIBRARY_PATH"
That should make ld search the current directory first and the normal path afterwards.

cu, tom