[Interest] Why does Assistant link to debug dll's on windows

David Boosalis david.boosalis at gmail.com
Sat Jul 21 17:18:56 CEST 2012


Thanks for the feedback.  I rebuilt assistant in release mode. All is well
now

-David


On Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at 3:21 PM, Peter Lee <ptle at risingsoftware.com> wrote:

>  It's a bug / mistake... we compile our own now... was this way in 4.8.0,
> can't remember the bug number but it's in the system.
>
> Regards,
>
> Peter Lee
>
>
> On 21/07/2012 1:09 AM, David Boosalis wrote:
>
> In the process of packaging  Qt's Assistant application on Windows I found
> that it linked to the debug libs of Qt (Gui,Core,Webkit, Network).  For my
> development I installed Qt onto my Windows computer using the package
> installer  for it.  I guess I will have to download the source code for Qt
> and build Assistant in release mode.
>
> Is this in fact true, that the prebuilt versions of Qt Assistant  for
> Windows is built with  debug mode only?   And if that's the case why does
> Assistant shipped this way, instead of having it built in release mode?   I
> clearly do not want to double the DLL's in my Windows installer by having
> to ship release and debug versions of all Qt libraries.
>
> Any clarity or advise here much appreciated.
>
> By the way I am using Qt 4.8.2
>
> Thanks
> David
>
>
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