[pyqtdeploy] Failing at building the demo

[Charles]

Actually for certain libraries like libssl, the dev version usually
provides a static library (.a) which should be fine with
install_from_source = false, but AFAIK no OS provides a static Qt library
so Qt needs to be compiled from source.

On Fri, Apr 26, 2024 at 10:13 PM Charles <peacech at gmail.com> wrote:

> I think there is something fundamentally wrong with the way you set up
> pyqtdeploy. Pyqtdeploy is supposedly used to compile a single static
> executable from your application. That means you should not use
> install_from_source = False, which causes linking with dynamic libraries
> which causes your past errors. You don't even need to install Qt or PyQt5
> because they should all be built from source statically.
>
> If what you want is only to distribute your application using pyinstaller
> might be easier than using pyqtdeploy.
>
>
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