[Interest] What is the difference.

[Karl Ruetz]

On Sep 26, 2014, at 2:37 PM, Karl Ruetz <karl.ruetz at ruetzdogz.com> wrote:

> 
> On Sep 24, 2014, at 10:22 AM, Thiago Macieira <thiago.macieira at intel.com> wrote:
> 
>> On Wednesday 24 September 2014 10:41:09 Koehne Kai wrote:
>>> I think Thiago already wrote it: use the offscreen plugin . Launch your app
>>> with e.g.
>>> 
>>> -platform minimal
>>> 
>>> And continue to use QApplication.
>> 
>> offscreen, not minimal.
>> 
>> You can also set QT_QPA_PLATFORM environment variable before the 
>> QGuiApplication construction if you need to do it programmatically. There is 
>> no C++ setter for it.
>> 
>> The minimal plugin is a sample plugin for plugin writers, explaining what the 
>> minimum they have to do is. We should disable its build for non-developer-
>> builds of Qt...
>> -- 
>> Thiago Macieira - thiago.macieira (AT) intel.com
>> 
> 
> Apparently I don’t know how deploy the offscreen platform.
> I have created a directory on the deployment machine called platforms that lives in the same directory with my executable.
> Inside the platforms directory is the following:
> # ls
> libqlinuxfb.a    libqminimal.a    libqoffscreen.a    libqxcb.a
> libqlinuxfb.prl  libqminimal.prl  libqoffscreen.prl  libqxcb.prl
> libqlinuxfb.so   libqminimal.so   libqoffscreen.so   libqxcb.so
> 
> When I attempt to run my app I get the following error:
> This application failed to start because it could not find or load the Qt platform plugin "offscreen".
> 
> Available platform plugins are: xcb.
> 
> Do I need to include something inside my executable to make it aware of the other platforms?
> 
> Karl
> 

Nevermind.  I rebuilt the app as dynamically linked using dynamically linked Qt and it found the platform.
Now I can do the dance of joy.
Can this be done with statically linked programs?
Do I just need to explicitly add the platform .a file to the LIBS in the Qt project file?

Karl