[SOLVED] How to add do_deploy task to a Qt6 CMake Yocto recipe that deploys an application binary to the build's deployment directory?

Issue

I have a recipe that builds and installs a Qt application to targets rootfs using qt6-cmake from meta-qt6, it works fine.

inherit qt6-cmake

SRC_URI += "<SNIP>"

DEPENDS += "\
    <SNIP> \
"

RDEPENDS:${PN} += "<SNIP>"

S = "${WORKDIR}/git"

I would like to extend the recipe with a do_deploy task that writes the Qt application binary to the build's deployment directory.

inherit deploy
/* SNIP */
do_deploy() {
    install -d ${DEPLOYDIR}
    install -m 0755 ???  ${DEPLOYDIR}/foo
}

add_task deploy after do_package

The problem is, I don't know what ??? should be. Where should the Qt application binary be deployed from?

Solution

The solution:

inherit deploy
/* SNIP */
do_deploy() {
    install -d ${DEPLOYDIR}
    install -m 0755 ${WORKDIR}/package${bindir}/foo ${DEPLOYDIR}/foo
}

addtask deploy after do_package

Answered By - shakta

Answer Checked By - Mildred Charles (WPSolving Admin)