Understanding the need for deployment

The process of making software work on a target device, whether it's a test server, a production environment, a user's desktop, or mobile device, is known as software deployment. Typically, end users want a single file that they can open to access your application. The user will not want to go through several processes to obtain various alien files. Usually, users look for software that they can launch with a double click or tap. The user will not want to go through a series of steps to obtain a number of unknown files. In this chapter, we will discuss the steps and things to consider while deploying a Qt application. We will discuss deploying the application on Windows, Mac, Linux, and Android platforms.

We've just been running debug versions of the applications we've built so far. You should make release binaries for generating deployment packages. The difference between these two alternatives is that the debug version...