[Development] Build failure: GUI example being compiled even with -no-gui -no-widgets

[Mandeep Sandhu]

>
> You'll see that QtCore, QtGui, QtWidgets and QtNetwork are all in the same
> repository. They were not modularised from each other.
>
> Those four basic libraries are required, period. We may provide no-xxx options
> for those rare scenarios where you may want them, but please don't complain if
> we break them. Send a patch instead.

Understood. Although some hint to the same for these options wouldn't
hurt (I'll try and post a patch if I get time).

>
>> > And examples definitely won't work. Except for a handful of examples,
>> > every
>> > single one of them is a graphical application. If you're passing -no-gui,
>> > please also pass -nomake examples.
>>
>> I need the networking related examples to be built, so "no can do"! :P
>
> You mean the graphical networking examples, like the HTTP client? :-)
>
> The only examples I know that aren't graphical are actually in networking
> ones. And that's only because yours truly here is not a graphical app
> developer and couldn't write a GUI, so I wrote the TextProgressBar class.

There's the 'dnslookup' example that I can think of! :)

Although now that I see majority of the examples are using some sort of a GUI.

Thanks,
-mandeep


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