On Tue, 2011-07-12 at 13:23 -0400, Phil Bouchard wrote: > On 7/12/2011 2:43 AM, Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote: > > > > Why? A static Qt means no plugins, which is pretty worthless. > > Distributing a standalone executable is much simpler than distributing > an archive full of DLLs.
You don't need to distribute the Qt DLLs, just have your users get them from the distro. > Plugins are needed only for drivers, fancy fonts, etc. not for a standard > application. False. While some plugins can be builtin to the libraries, the following absolutely require plugin support: - CJK language support, - QML (QtDeclarative), - QCA, - QtDesigner widgets, - Phonon, - third-party QStyle engines, - and last, but not least, KDE. Yaakov Cygwin/X -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
