[Development] Symbol clashes with static Qt libraries

Giuseppe D'Angelo giuseppe.dangelo at kdab.com
Tue Jul 31 14:38:17 CEST 2018


On 31/07/18 14:06, Mitch Curtis wrote:
> This one is a nice compromise, in that it's just an extra argument to pass to configure. Though, like you said, the issue is making people aware of it.
> 
> Are there any downsides to doing this by default?

It will likely break every single application that has never used a 
namespaced build of Qt. Which is a significant percentage of all the Qt 
apps out there...

My 2 c,

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