[Interest] Mixing debug and release builds of Qt5 modules on Linux

Allan Sandfeld Jensen kde at carewolf.com
Fri Mar 20 01:03:55 CET 2015


On Thursday 19 March 2015, Jan Kundrát wrote:
> Hi,
> are there any problems when some Qt5 modules are built using CONFIG+=debug
> and others in release mode on Linux? A Qt5 maintainer at Gentoo says that
> he's heard that this mixing debug and release can break the ABI. Based on
> what I know about Qt5, I do not think that it is true. Can we expect any
> problems when we do mix these modules?
> 
No that works perfectly fine on Linux. In fact you can even combine the two 
into release builds with debug symbols, and even have the debug symbols for 
the release build in a separate file.

`Allan



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