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authorMitch Curtis <mitch.curtis@digia.com>2014-02-07 17:44:15 +0100
committerThe Qt Project <gerrit-noreply@qt-project.org>2014-02-12 11:45:38 +0100
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Document how to use windeployqt.
Change-Id: Iabc27ad9adb5597904c3d03a732c8fa84336f55c Reviewed-by: Andrew Knight <andrew.knight@digia.com> Reviewed-by: Friedemann Kleint <Friedemann.Kleint@digia.com>
-rw-r--r--src/windeployqt/main.cpp6
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/src/windeployqt/main.cpp b/src/windeployqt/main.cpp
index bf31f2d1..f1573685 100644
--- a/src/windeployqt/main.cpp
+++ b/src/windeployqt/main.cpp
@@ -236,7 +236,11 @@ static inline int parseArguments(const QStringList &arguments, QCommandLineParse
typedef QVector<OptionMaskPair> OptionMaskVector;
parser->setSingleDashWordOptionMode(QCommandLineParser::ParseAsLongOptions);
- parser->setApplicationDescription(QStringLiteral("Qt Deploy Tool ") + QLatin1String(QT_VERSION_STR));
+ parser->setApplicationDescription(QStringLiteral("Qt Deploy Tool ") + QLatin1String(QT_VERSION_STR)
+ + QLatin1String("\n\nThe simplest way to use windeployqt is to add the bin directory of your Qt\n"
+ "installation (e.g. <QT_DIR\\bin>) to the PATH variable and then run:\n windeployqt <path-to-app-binary>\n"
+ "If ICU, ANGLE, etc. are not in the bin directory, they need to be in the PATH\nvariable. "
+ "If your application uses Qt Quick, run:\n windeployqt --qmldir <path-to-app-qml-files> <path-to-app-binary>"));
const QCommandLineOption helpOption = parser->addHelpOption();
parser->addVersionOption();