[Development] Fixing the DLL/shared/static mess

[Stephen Kelly]

On Sunday, April 15, 2012 19:30:55 Thiago Macieira wrote:
> On domingo, 15 de abril de 2012 23.59.55, Stephen Kelly wrote:
> > On Friday, April 13, 2012 13:55:04 Thiago Macieira wrote:
> > > > 4) Packagers who package only one type of Qt build (shared or
> > > > static,
> > > > but
> > > > not both), should not see any changes either. One Qt build means
> > > > a set of
> > > > library files and the headers (e.g.: libQtCore.so and
> > > > qconfig.h).
> > > 
> > > THIS IS A PROPOSAL
> > > 
> > > A static-and-shared build of Qt is currently not supported. There
> > > are no plans to accomplish this with the current buildsystem in one
> > > build.> 
> > Hmm, when I worked on the CMake buildsystem files, I thought
> > static-and-shared was the default on Mac (or maybe it was Windows), or I
> > had to support it for that reason. Has that changed or am I
> > imagining/misremembering it?
> 
> You may be confusing static-and-shared with debug-and-release. That's the
> default on Mac and Windows.

Yes, you are correct.

> 
> Static and shared in one build has never been supported.

But you want to make it supported in one package? Has that been possible 
before?

> It's far more likely that CMake and other buildsystems can accomplish this,
> even if qmake can't. In order to do that, we need to have a sane qconfig.h
> and export macros. That's what this proposal is about.

Right. I might have to have another closer look at the proposal tomorrow then. 
A solution that works for qmake can probably be adapted anyway, as you note.

Thanks,

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