Building Qt statically

[mynewaccc1]

Hi,
Kind of a newb question. Does building Qt statically ensure me it will run on ANY machine (giving it is the correct platform), without any environment/libs/etc' dependencies, Is is guaranteed to run on any freshly installed Linux?

Thanks.

[anda_skoa]

Statically linking an application means that the library code used by the application is part of the application executable.

But that library could have also used libraries, so you need to statically link those as well. And so forth.
Some application or library code might load plugins at runtime, so the code to do that needs to be replaced with build-time link code.

But yes, if you statically link everything down to including libc you could essentially run the application on top of just the OS kernel.

In general lots of work for little gain.

Cheers,
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[mynewaccc1]

Statically linking an application means that the library code used by the application is part of the application executable.

But that library could have also used libraries, so you need to statically link those as well. And so forth.
Some application or library code might load plugins at runtime, so the code to do that needs to be replaced with build-time link code.

But yes, if you statically link everything down to including libc you could essentially run the application on top of just the OS kernel.

In general lots of work for little gain.

Cheers,
_

So what would be the best way of building a Qt application in such a way that a freshly installed with no internet connection, would be able to run this?

[anda_skoa]

It depends on what you expect the target system to have already and which things you don't.

Then you bundle all the things you don't expect to be present and let your start script set e.g. LD_LIBRARY_PATH so that your libraries can be found by the runtime linker.

Cheers,
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