Add AppImage Updater Bridge to your Project

AppImage Updater Bridge can compiled with both QMake and CMake , I recommend you to use QMake if you are building your application statically with Qt. Use CMake for normal compilation and other stuff , This is because CMake is easy to use than QMake when compiling with shared libraries of Qt. But CMake is very hard to work with when using a static version of Qt , So to save some madness be a good boy/girl and use QMake instead.

Using QMake.

The Simple Way for Single Application.

• Go to your project folder.

• Install AppImageUpdaterBridge as a git submodule or just clone it.

• Add this line to your project file.

include(AppImageUpdaterBridge/AppImageUpdaterBridge.pri)

• Add AppImageUpdaterBridge headers to your source file.

#include <AppImageUpdaterBridge>

• Finally , Just Compile.

 $ mkdir build ; cd build ; qmake .. ; make -j$(nproc) 

The Hard And Standard Way for Large Applications and Libraries.

Since your project uses qmake as the makefile generator then you have to follow a specific directory hierarchy , The structure is show below.

 -MyCoolApplication
  --libs
     ---AppImageUpdaterBridge
     ---libs.pro
  --src
     ---main.cpp
     ---mainwindow.hpp
     ---mainwindow.cpp
     ---src.pro
  --MyCoolApplication.pro

The Library Subdir Project file (libs.pro)

This is where you keep all third party libraries including AppImageUpdaterBridge. Just add a git submodule or execute the steps mentioned in the Installation
in the libs directory of your project folder.

TEMPLATE = subdirs
CONFIG += ordered
SUBDIRS = AppImageUpdaterBridge

Your Source's Project file (src.pro)

TEMPLATE = app
TARGET = ../MyCoolApplication

QT += core gui # Modules thats needed by your app.

# Put your dynamic libs after AppImageUpdaterBridge. 
LIBS += ../libs/AppImageUpdaterBridge/libAppImageUpdaterBridge.a 

INCLUDEPATH += . .. \
               ../libs/AppImageUpdaterBridge/ # This is important

SOURCES += main.cpp mainwindow.cpp # All your source files.
HEADERS += mainwindow.hpp # All your header files.

Your Main Project file ( MyCoolApplication.pro )

TEMPLATE = subdirs
CONFIG += ordered
SUBDIRS = libs \ # Always use this order
      src

Including AppImageUpdaterBridge in your Source

Whenever you want to use AppImageUpdaterBridge , you just need to include it!

#include <AppImageUpdaterBridge>

Thats it , All you have to do is to build your project with qmake.

 $ mkdir build; cd build ; qmake .. ; make -j$(nproc) 

Using CMake

It is recommended for you to keep your source files at the top level and then add AppImageUpdaterBridge as a subdirectory in your CMakeList.txt

Here is a small example on how it is done!

CMAKE_MINIMUM_REQUIRED( VERSION 3.2)
project(MyCoolApplication)

set(CMAKE_CXX_STANDARD 11)

set(CMAKE_INCLUDE_CURRENT_DIR ON)
# Instruct CMake to run moc automatically when needed.
set(CMAKE_AUTOMOC ON)

# Find the QtCore library
find_package(Qt5Core)
find_package(Qt5Network)
find_package(Qt5Widgets)

include_directories(${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR}) # just in case!
# Add include directory
include_directories(AppImageUpdaterBridge)
include_directories(AppImageUpdaterBridge/include)

# include subdirectories 
add_subdirectory(AppImageUpdaterBridge)

add_executable(MyCoolApplication MyMain.cpp)
target_link_libraries(MyCoolApplication AppImageUpdaterBridge 
                    Qt5::Core 
                    Qt5::Network
                    Qt5::Widgets)

Where MyCoolApplication is the application that you are currently working with.

Disable Logging in QMake or CMake

For some reasone if you think you don't want logging support whatsoever , i.e no signal from logger signal in AppImageDeltaRevisioner.

In QMake like this ,

 $ qmake "CONFIG+=LOGGING_DISABLED" [ProjectFolder]

and

In CMake like this ,

 $ cmake -DLOGGING_DISABLED=ON [ProjectFolder]

Compiling without logger support can reduce your binary by approx. 100 KiB and also saves some runtime overhead and memory usage.

Disable building AppImageUpdaterDialog

AppImageUpdaterDialog is a class provided by the library for an easy use of the updater through a nice graphical modal dialog which can be handy at times. But if you want to disable this for some reason then you can do so by doing like this ,

In QMake ,

 $ qmake "CONFIG+=NO_GUI" [ProjectFolder]

and

In CMake ,

 $ cmake -DNO_GUI=ON [ProjectFolder]