Re: [Mingw-cross-env-list] Qt libjscore.a not installed

[Mark Brand]

Hi Gareth,

Hope you don't mind my CCing the list in my reply.

G Coco wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 6, 2011 at 3:21 AM, Mark Brand<address@hidden>  wrote:
> > > Looks like it may be back to DLL's for me.
> > Are you thinking of just building all of Qt as shared libraries? You might
> > try building just QtWebKit as a DLL.
> How would be the best way to do this within the MCE environment.
>
> That would be a good compromise for me in this.

Unfortunately, I think that was a misguided suggestion on my part. 
QtWebKit depends on several other Qt libraries. If you build QtWebKit as 
a DLL and the others static, you'll end up embedding them all into the 
QtWebKit DLL, which is probably not what you want.

If you still want to pursue this, I think you'll have to hack in the 
relevant project files (.pro/.pri).

Using shared Qt libs looks like the only known solution for linking an 
application to both QtWebKit and QtScript at this point.

It's possible to build a usable shared Qt with mingw-cross-env. I used 
to do it regularly several version ago. Just remove "-static" from the 
configure options in qt.mk. You'll still end up with dependencies like 
zlib, jpeg, png, openssl, postgresql, etc (static in mingw-cross-env) 
embedded in the Qt DLLS, but that's probably tolerable. You might want 
to disable the features you don't need to keep this at a minimum.

Keep in mind the defaults for Qt image format and SQL drivers. The 
default is plugin for shared Qt and built-in for static Qt. There are 
configure options to override the defaults.

Mark