diff --git a/src/corelib/Qt6CoreDeploySupport.cmake b/src/corelib/Qt6CoreDeploySupport.cmake
index 915f94b0e00..2615eca4ea0 100644
--- a/src/corelib/Qt6CoreDeploySupport.cmake
+++ b/src/corelib/Qt6CoreDeploySupport.cmake
@@ -546,10 +546,19 @@ if(NOT __QT_NO_CREATE_VERSIONLESS_FUNCTIONS)
 endif()
 
 function(_qt_internal_show_skip_runtime_deploy_message qt_build_type_string)
+    set(no_value_options "")
+    set(single_value_options
+        EXTRA_MESSAGE
+    )
+    set(multi_value_options "")
+    cmake_parse_arguments(PARSE_ARGV 1 arg
+        "${no_value_options}" "${single_value_options}" "${multi_value_options}"
+    )
     message(STATUS
         "Skipping runtime deployment steps. "
         "Support for installing runtime dependencies is not implemented for "
-        "this target platform (${__QT_DEPLOY_SYSTEM_NAME}, ${qt_build_type_string})."
+        "this target platform (${__QT_DEPLOY_SYSTEM_NAME}, ${qt_build_type_string}). "
+        "${arg_EXTRA_MESSAGE}"
     )
 endfunction()
 
diff --git a/src/corelib/Qt6CoreMacros.cmake b/src/corelib/Qt6CoreMacros.cmake
index 079ce487143..019f9b4df94 100644
--- a/src/corelib/Qt6CoreMacros.cmake
+++ b/src/corelib/Qt6CoreMacros.cmake
@@ -3589,6 +3589,9 @@ function(qt6_generate_deploy_app_script)
         message(FATAL_ERROR "OUTPUT_SCRIPT must be specified")
     endif()
 
+    get_target_property(is_bundle ${arg_TARGET} MACOSX_BUNDLE)
+
+    set(unsupported_platform_extra_message "")
     if(QT6_IS_SHARED_LIBS_BUILD)
         set(qt_build_type_string "shared Qt libs")
     else()
@@ -3599,6 +3602,12 @@ function(qt6_generate_deploy_app_script)
         string(APPEND qt_build_type_string ", cross-compiled")
     endif()
 
+    if(NOT is_bundle)
+        string(APPEND qt_build_type_string ", non-bundle app")
+        set(unsupported_platform_extra_message
+            "Executable targets have to be app bundles to use this command on Apple platforms.")
+    endif()
+
     set(generate_args
         TARGET ${arg_TARGET}
         OUTPUT_SCRIPT deploy_script
@@ -3626,15 +3635,9 @@ function(qt6_generate_deploy_app_script)
             SKIP_REASON "${skip_reason}"
             ${generate_args}
         )
-    elseif(APPLE AND NOT IOS AND QT6_IS_SHARED_LIBS_BUILD)
-        # TODO: Handle non-bundle applications if possible.
-        get_target_property(is_bundle ${arg_TARGET} MACOSX_BUNDLE)
-        if(NOT is_bundle)
-            message(FATAL_ERROR
-                "Executable targets have to be app bundles to use this command "
-                "on Apple platforms."
-            )
-        endif()
+    elseif(APPLE AND NOT IOS AND QT6_IS_SHARED_LIBS_BUILD AND is_bundle)
+        # TODO: Consider handling non-bundle applications in the future using the generic cmake
+        # runtime dependency feature.
         qt6_generate_deploy_script(${generate_args}
             CONTENT "
 qt6_deploy_runtime_dependencies(
@@ -3663,19 +3666,22 @@ ${common_deploy_args})
 
     elseif(NOT arg_NO_UNSUPPORTED_PLATFORM_ERROR AND NOT QT_INTERNAL_NO_UNSUPPORTED_PLATFORM_ERROR)
         # Currently we don't deploy runtime dependencies if cross-compiling or using a static Qt.
-        # We also don't do it if targeting Linux, but we could provide an option to do
-        # so if we had a deploy tool or purely CMake-based deploy implementation.
         # Error out by default unless the project opted out of the error.
         # This provides us a migration path in the future without breaking compatibility promises.
         message(FATAL_ERROR
             "Support for installing runtime dependencies is not implemented for "
-            "this target platform (${CMAKE_SYSTEM_NAME}, ${qt_build_type_string})."
+            "this target platform (${CMAKE_SYSTEM_NAME}, ${qt_build_type_string}). "
+            ${unsupported_platform_extra_message}
         )
     else()
-        qt6_generate_deploy_script(${generate_args}
-            CONTENT "
-_qt_internal_show_skip_runtime_deploy_message(\"${qt_build_type_string}\")
-")
+        set(skip_message
+            "_qt_internal_show_skip_runtime_deploy_message(\"${qt_build_type_string}\"")
+        if(unsupported_platform_extra_message)
+            string(APPEND skip_message
+                "\n    EXTRA_MESSAGE \"${unsupported_platform_extra_message}\"")
+        endif()
+        string(APPEND skip_message "\n)")
+        qt6_generate_deploy_script(${generate_args} CONTENT "${skip_message}")
     endif()
 
     set(${arg_OUTPUT_SCRIPT} "${deploy_script}" PARENT_SCOPE)