[Development] Making sure all platform plugin library names are prefixed with "q"
Samuel Rødal
samuel.rodal at digia.com
Tue Dec 11 10:01:42 CET 2012
Hello,
currently the platform plugin library name is a bit inconsistent. In
most cases it will have the "q" prefix, for instance libqeglfs.so,
libqminimal.so, libqcocoa.so, etc.
However, the qnx, windows, and xcb libraries were named libqnx.so,
libwindows.so, and libxcb.so respectively. The latter might be
especially problematic since the system xcb library is typically also
called libxcb.so.
The static linking support currently assumed the latter, non-prefixed
library names, which means static linking is currently broken with any
of the other platform plugins.
The proposal is to always prefix the library names with "q", for
consistency and avoiding name clashes:
https://codereview.qt-project.org/#change,42347
This doesn't affect the platform key used with the QT_QPA_PLATFORM env
variable or the "-platform" command line argument, it will still be
"xcb" in the xcb platform plugin case for instance.
The only risk I can see is that stale plugins will be lying around in
the build directories of people doing incremental builds. That might
mean a few people could end up using a slightly older plugin version
without newer fixes for a short while. When / if the change gets merged
I will send another mail reminding people to delete their
plugins/platforms directory before updating to the latest stable.
--
Samuel
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