[Development] Qt{X11,Mac,Windows}Support

lars.knoll at nokia.com lars.knoll at nokia.com
Mon Dec 5 10:49:57 CET 2011


On 11/30/11 9:42 AM, "ext Thiago Macieira" <thiago.macieira at intel.com>
wrote:

>During the Lighthouse documentation discussion here in San Francisco, one
>of 
>the topics raised was where classes like QX11EmbedContainer and
>QMacCocoaViewContainer would be. They cannot be in QtGui because QtGui
>does 
>not link to the necessary libraries.
>
>So our conclusion is that we need a set of libraries that are
>platform-specific 
>and would include those classes. It's up to the application developer to
>guarantee that the application is using the right Lighthouse plugin if
>they 
>use the library unconditionally, or they need to use a plugin system
>based on 
>the Lighthouse plugin loaded at runtime.

Ack. We need one library per platform (QtX11Support, QtWindowsSupport,
...). Per definition these libraries would be add-ons.

Cheers,
Lars




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