Qt MacOS CMake

What it is

This project provide a CMake macro to help you deploy Qt application on MacOS. It will generate a deploy target that creates a .dmg for your .app bundle.

• macdeployqt to deploy frameworks and qml. Documentation is available here.

This project is conceptually based on the great Olivier Le Doeuff.

How to use it

How to integrate it to your CMake configuration

All you have to do is to call the add_qt_macos_dmg macro to create a new target that will create the MacOS Deployment Targets.

IF(${CMAKE_SYSTEM_NAME} STREQUAL "Darwin")
    add_executable(MyApp MACOSX_BUNDLE ${MYAPP_SRCS})
	
    FetchContent_Declare(
            QtWindowsCMake
            GIT_REPOSITORY "https://github.com/ahmedyarub/QtMacosCMake"
            GIT_TAG        master
        )
    FetchContent_MakeAvailable(QtMacosCMake)
    add_qt_macos_dmg(MyApp)
ENDIF()

The you can simply run

make MyAppDeploy

Of course, add_qt_macos_dmg accepts more options, see below for the detail.

How to run CMake

add_qt_macos_dmg(my_app
    NAME "MyApp"
    QML_DIR "path/to/qmldir"
    NO_PLUGINS
    NO_STRIP
    OVERWRITE_EXISTING
    VERBOSE_LEVEL_DEPLOY 1
    ALL
)

Here is the full list of possible arguments:

Contact

• Ahmed Yarub Hani Al Nuaimi: ahmedyarub@yahoo.com