making Windows installer on Linux?

[J-Kappes]

I used MXE to make an app.exe and successfully produced a deployed app.exe with
cqtdeployer -bin app.exe -qmake /path/to/qmake
Then, executing the same command with qif appended produced a .run installer. Is there a way to make an .exe installer instead?

[EndrII]

Yes, it is possible. You can call binarycreator.exe instead of the Linux version of the binarycreator tool.

But at current time CQtDeployer not support overriding of the command and I don't have a free time to add new option.
maybe you can add new option for cqtdeployer for overriding run command ?

If yes, I can create a new issue with dital description what you need to do

[J-Kappes]

I would be willing to devote 16 hours to that. However, I'm very inexperienced and can't promise any results 😬

[EndrII]

Good news, I found free time and will add new option itself
See #699

[EndrII]

Update cqtdeployer to v1.5.4.16 and do this:

• install wine
• install windows binarycreator
• run cqtdeployer with the -binarycreator option

cqtdeployer -bin myBin -qmake myQmake ... -binarycreator 'wine path/to/win/binarycreator.exe' qif  

~$ cqtdeployer help -binarycreator ''
Info: Print info ...
Information about using options
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  -binarycreator {binarycreator command}: Sets new binarycreator command.
                              : Example: cqtdeployer -bin my.exe qifw
                              : -binarycreator 'wine path/to/binarycreator.exe'
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