[Development] Qt 5 and old versions of XCB

[Thiago Macieira]

On domingo, 18 de março de 2012 20.10.51, lars.knoll at nokia.com wrote:
> Solving the problem of old distro's is not that hard. All that's required
> is to link xcb statically into the platform plugin. This is something that
> can be done, it can even be made rather simply in the Qt build system.

Note that it needs to be an fPIC-static library, which most distributions do 
not provide, nor is it the standard build of static libraries when compiled 
with autoconf / automake.

If you want an XCB library that you can link into a plugin, you'll need to do 
a bit of hacking on XCB first.

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Thiago Macieira - thiago.macieira (AT) intel.com
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