Installing Files

To install your project, specify the necessary information in the project file:

 Application {
     Group {
         name: "Runtime resources"
         files: "*.qml"
         qbs.install: true
         qbs.installDir: "share/myproject"
     }
     Group {
         name: "The App itself"
         fileTagsFilter: "application"
         qbs.install: true
         qbs.installDir: "bin"
     }
 }

In this example, we want to install a couple of QML files and an executable. The actual installation is then done like this (using the default profile):

 qbs --clean-install-root qbs.installRoot:/tmp/myProjectRoot

Here, we want the installDir properties from the project file to be interpreted relative to the directory /tmp/myProjectRoot, and we want that directory to be removed first.

If the qbs.installRoot property is not given, a default is used, namely <build root>/install-root.

For more information about how the installation path is constructed, see Installation Properties.