On Tue, 2011-07-12 at 22:53 -0400, Phil Bouchard wrote: > On 7/12/2011 10:41 PM, Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote: > > > > You don't need to distribute the Qt DLLs, just have your users get them > > from the distro. > > I meant some people would like to distribute an executable to systems > with no Cygwin or Qt installed. > > > 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. > > What I am trying to say is to include both the DLL and the static > library in the package, this way we'll be able to use Qt Designer and > linking the final executable dynamically or statically.
The other major distributions don't do this, and there's a reason why: a static Qt build is different from a shared one, and you can't install them both in the same place. > As it is right now I've been rebuilding Qt from source 2 or 3 times > because the configure script deletes all objects files when it's run and > each build took 96 minutes. The Qt build is very configurable; you may want to consider disabling whichever components you don't need in order to save time. > Not to mention I had the following bugs: > http://bugreports.qt.nokia.com/browse/QTBUG-20342?focusedCommentId=158621#comment-158621 Needless to say, our Qt includes patches which fix all these errors. I have yet to push these upstream, so in the meantime, please direct Qt bug reports to these lists. Yaakov -- 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
