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I'm looking for a way to create a QGIS build with a minimal set of specific tools. I want to use it with my custom script that allows the user to:

  1. Create a new project
  2. Add offline OSM tiles
  3. Put a few points here and there (through the Digitizing panel or the NumericalDigitize plugin)
  4. Automatically draw lines between them
  5. Save the result

The problem is that I don't know what modules and libraries are needed for this purpose and, hence, I don't know what to include in the build (and how to properly do that).

At first, I thought I could achieve this with help of OSGeo4W (Advanced installation) but I was quickly overwhelmed with a long list of libraries listed. So then I started looking for a guide on QGIS modules which I could bundle together, but found nothing.

Does anybody know how can I achieve the desired result?

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  • Have you tried modifying user profiles?
    – Erik
    Aug 5, 2022 at 13:12
  • @Erik Sure, but what I want to truly achieve is a package that will occupy less space on the workstation. I don't want it to have extra modules that I will never use.
    – druid
    Aug 5, 2022 at 13:48
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    Seems really complicated and unlikely to reduce the size by a whole lot since you still need most of the big "pieces" of QGIS and its not like QGIS takes that much space anyway
    – Louis Cottereau
    Aug 5, 2022 at 14:00
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    If that's all the functionality you need you could probably do it without QGIS, using a browser-based front end and a fairly simple server running locally.
    – Spacedman
    Aug 5, 2022 at 14:21
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    The cmake file allows you to chose which module to install or not. Some are needed for the base stuff (QGIS core), another also could be to create a standalone application that doesn't need to be installed and could be accessed on a shared drive (the ming64 action on github create such an 'artefact'). But if you just want a project you could probably generate one without qgis by replicating the internal content with the layers you want, might be a hassle though.
    – Al rl
    Aug 7, 2022 at 12:59

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