watermarker

This was developed for use on Windows 10 with MinGW, but can be used on any Linux distribution.

Depenencies:

• Qt5
• OpenCV
• CMake
• GCC

Install

Download and install Qt5:

1. Visit the Qt download page for open source installs.
2. Scroll to the bottom of the page and press the button Download the Qt Online Installer.
3. The website will auto-identify the current OS and provide a download for the installer.
4. Download and run the installer.
5. On the Qt Setup page, expand the line with Qt 5.15.0 and select MinGW 8.1.0 64 bit. The only other thing to be selected on this page is Qt Creator under Tools which is not optional.

Download and install OpenCV:

1. Download pre-built OpenCV package from OpenCV-MinGW-Build and download the correct installer.
2. Add path/to/opencv/x64/mingw/bin to the PATH

Download and install the latest version of CMake:

1. Visit the CMake download page.
2. For Windows, download the binary distribution Windows win64-x64 Installer.
3. For Linux, donwload the binary distribution Linux x86_64 or just use the package manager like a normal person.
4. Run the installer.

Install GCC:

1. Visit the MinGW download page.
2. Download the MinGW-W64 Online Installer and run the executable.
3. On the Settings page, ensure Version 8.1.0, Architecture x86_64, Threads posix, Exception seh, and Build 0.
4. Ensure that it is installed correctly by running gcc and observing a fatal error.

Configure

Configure for VSCode

1. Install the extension CMake Tools.
2. Select Debug for build variant and MinGW/GCC 8.1.0 for the active kit.
3. To ensure proper syntax highlighting for Qt includes, add path/to/Qt/%VERSION%/mingw81_64/bin/** to the includePath.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/49982419/how-to-release-a-qt-c-application-on-linux-and-windows