[Development] Compile Qt-4.8.2 with QPA on windows

Rafael Roquetto rafael.roquetto at kdab.com
Wed Jan 16 20:35:18 CET 2013


On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 12:37:40AM +0800, Thiago Macieira wrote:
> On quarta-feira, 16 de janeiro de 2013 12.34.39, Amogh Kudari wrote:
> > Hi All,
> > 
> >       I wanted to know whether is it possible to compile QT 4.8.2 with QPA
> > on Windows ?
> 
> QPA for non-Linux systems (besides Blackberry) is only supported in Qt 5.
> 
> There was a time, before Qt 5, that QPA actually compiled on Mac OS X. The 
> "cocoa" plugin is still there, but I wouldn't write an application with that.
> 
> There is no Windows plugin. So even if the rest of the code compiles and works 
> on Windows (which is extremely unlikely), you'll still need to write the 
> plugin yourself.
In addition to what Thiago said, the reason there is a -qpa flag on Windows is
to allow for cross-compiling of other platforms on Windows hosts - if
supported by the target platform.

Rafael

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