nedrysoft/makeuniversal

Tool to create a Universal Binary version of a Qt distribution.

makeuniversal

This application can be used to generate a universal build of Qt from the x86_64 and ARM64 build folders.

It uses rsync to copy the x86_64 folder to the destination and then finds all binaries and adds the arm64 arch to them to create a Universal binary.

Usage

makeuniversal <universal> <x86_64> <arm64>

• universal is the folder which will contain the universal version of Qt,
• x86_64 is the qtbase folder in the x86_64 build folder.
• arm64 is the qtbase folder in the arm build folder.

Example

./makeuniversal "./qt5-mac-universal" "./qt5-mac-x86_64" "./qt5-mac-arm64"

License

makeuniversal is licensed under the GPLv3 License.

makeuniversal's Issues

How to build `makeuniversal` binary

Hi there, sorry for dump question,

how to build makeuniversal binary from this source?

Resulting binary cannot be signed

Hi, thanks for the great tool!

One thing, I had to fix it in order to skip symlinks for correct handling of Qt frameworks.
Otherwise it replaces symlinks with original files and the binary couldn't be signed resulting:

bundle format is ambiguous (could be app or framework)

Now it works faster of cause too 😄

Looks great - broader instructions?

I definitely want to build Qt universal apps. I found your project, but I have some questions.

It sounds like you used Xcode 12.x to build x86_64 and arm64 separately and then used this to makeuniversal

Could you put a tiny bit more in the README?

Isn't it possible to use Cmake to build with CMAKE_OSX_ARCHITECTURES set?

Thanks - happy to know there are routes to get M1 binaries working.