[Development] Contribution: include separate libraries with inlines in the Qt installers

[Thiago Macieira]

On Thursday 22 October 2015 15:10:35 Dimitar Dobrev wrote:
>     Host languages need binary symbols to invoke, and in the case of inlines
> those might not be available. About the ABI, that's correct but my idea is
> to have the inlines compiled as part of the Qt build process per platform
> and then included in each installer.

Right, so you have a very, very specialised use-case: you're doing 
GetProcAddress for each function and you're using whatever ABI mechanisms you 
need to find those functions (note that you *cannot* call __thiscall functions 
with MSVC since the "this" parameter is passed in a register).

I don't think we want to ship those extra binaries for such a corner case. No 
one else is going to need them.

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