Steps I have followed for Qt development:
· Installed the Qt SDK 4.7.3 open source.
· Installed the MingW compiler and put it in path = c:\Qt\4.7.3\
· Installed openSSL(not reconfigured this time as this one is binary version).
· Installed Visual Studio 2008
· Installed QT plugin for VS 2008.
· Installed Intel AppUp SDK
· Configured MingW for openSSL by following steps:
· Assuming a default installation (C:\OpenSSL), go to 'C:\OpenSSL\lib\MinGW' and copy all of the files to your MinGW 'lib' directory.
· Next, copy everything in the 'C:\OpenSSL\include' directory to your MinGW 'include' directory.
· Configured Visual Studio 2008 for openSSL support by following steps:
· from 'C:\OpenSSL\lib\VC' copy all of the files to your Visual C++ 'lib' directory 'C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\VC\lib'.
· Next, copy everything in the 'C:\OpenSSL\include' directory to Visual C++ 'include' directory.
· Creation of MSI installer:
· From VS 'Tools' menu option click on 'Generate setup project for intel AppUp(SM) center application and follow the successive UI steps that are easy one.
· In installer Application Directory I have put following openSSL related dlls that shipped with openSSL installation : ‘libeay32.dll’, ‘libssl32.dll’ and ‘ssleay32.dll’.
· If you are using SQLite database in your app then in Application Directory create a folder named "plugins\sqldrivers" and put "qsqlite4.dll" file inside sqldrivers folder.
· For image format supports put "qgif4.dll", "qico4.dll"..etc ( as required by the application) on "plugins\imageformats"
· For different language support with Webkit add the codec plugins too. For that put "qcncodecs4.dll", "qjpcodecs4.dll", "qkrcodecs4.dll", "qtwcodecs4.dll" files inside "plugins\codecs" folder in installer Application Directory.
Note: all these plugins you can find inside Qt Sdk path. ('C:\Qt\4.7.3\plugins' in my case).
Following dlls we are adding with MSI now:
QtCore4.dll, QtGui4.dll, QtNetwork4.dll, QtSql4.dll, QtWebKit4.dll, phonon4.dll, libgcc_s_dw2-1.dll, mingwm10.dll, libeay32.dll, libssl32.dll, ssleay32.dll.
(also windows system related dlls: CRYPT32.dll, PSAPI.DLL, and WSOCK32.dll --These are added bydefault by MSI creator)
The silent installer runs with openSSL like a charm.
Enjoy!