[Development] Distributing 3rd party closed source libs

[Sean Harmer]

Hi,

a very common request is for Qt 3D to support the Autodesk FBX file 
format which is a pretty standard format for exchanging 3D meshes, and 
animations. Unfortunately the format is undocumented and proprietary but 
Autodesk does provide a free (as in beer) SDK that can be used to parse 
FBX files.

Guillermo and Mauro have been making the QMesh geometry loading 
component plugin based to help support more formats. One of the formats 
we'd like to support is FBX. For developers building from git, this is 
manageable, although not ideal, by downloading the fbx sdk and pointing 
the build at it.

What can we do in terms of pre-compiled release builds of Qt? Is it 
feasible for us to distribute the runtime lib required by the plugin 
from the fbx SDK? Or do we need to find some other solution such as 
build the plugin for the release packages but require the user to 
install the fbx SDK?

I guess this is similar to the database driver plugins.

Cheers,

Sean
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