Finally, we will learn how to deploy our application to an actual physical device. We will cover two methods for doing this – the automated way and the manual way. The automated way requires the Qt commercial license and this feature comes together with Qt Creator. The manual way, on the other hand, does not require a commercial license, but it is a much longer process than the former. Let's take a look at each.
Deploying a Qt application to an embedded system
Automated deployment from Qt Creator
The Qt commercial license comes with a tool called Boot to Qt Flashing Wizard, which we discussed in the Setting up an embedded Linux image section. Unlike the manual way of cross-compiling in Qt, which we discussed in...
