[Interest] multiple displaying backends on OS X?

[Thiago Macieira]

On Monday 26 January 2015 01:06:20 René J.V. Bertin wrote:
> On Sunday January 25 2015 21:29:47 Thiago Macieira wrote:
> > libxcb was designed to bind to the X11 protocol more directly and avoid
> > functions that had to wait for results before returning. Once it was
> > complete, libX11 was rewritten on top of the new API.
> 
> Interesting.
> 
> I just reported a building issue with QtWebkit. However:
> 
> When I installed qtbase over my existing install, I could indeed render to
> my local X11 server, and even the QtCurve style worked.
> 
> Am I correct to assume that theoretically I only need to determine what
> additional files get installed in a cocoa+xcb build of *qtbase*, and add
> those to a standard cocoa build? Or is the platform plugin enumeration done
> during the build?

The plugins are found at runtime.

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