[Development] Qt PDF as a new TP module for Qt 5.14

[Thiago Macieira]

On Wednesday, 14 August 2019 09:36:44 PDT Allan Sandfeld Jensen wrote:
> On Wednesday, 14 August 2019 17:00:51 CEST Shawn Rutledge wrote:
> > > On 14 Aug 2019, at 16:41, Thiago Macieira <thiago.macieira at intel.com>
> > > wrote:
> > > 
> > > If it uses the already-compiled qtwebengine, then there may be a way.
> > 
> > I think the point of bundling qtpdf into the qtwebengine repository is
> > that
> > they will be built together, from the same sources.  I hope it also means
> > that the same Pdfium shared object will be used by both, at runtime, but
> > maybe somebody can confirm that?
> 
> Same sources, and maybe even same the object files during building, but at
> the moment they end up as two different modules. We don't have a pdfium
> shared library, and it is not on our timeline.

That's ok, so long as both libraries get built from the same .tar.xz.

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Thiago Macieira - thiago.macieira (AT) intel.com
  Software Architect - Intel System Software Products