[Interest] [Qt3D] Minimizing Qt3D dependencies

[Sean Harmer]

Hi,

Qt3D will always require QtGui for the QWindow, QOpenGL* classes and the 
QPA abstraction layer.

It does not however require QtWidgets so it is not as heavy as you may 
think.

Cheers,

Sean

On 03/10/2015 20:47, Catalin Moldovan wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm interested in trying and using Qt3D 2.0 for game development. I'm 
> currently using Unity3D but I was always attracted by the beauty of 
> Qml and I'm a C++ developer at heart. I have some concerns though 
> regarding the size of an application that is using Qt3D. From what 
> I've seen Qt3D depends on GUI module and that is a pretty big module. 
> I suppose that module is used to initialize OpenGL context but I 
> didn't dug up through source code to verify.
> Is it possible to minimize dependencies for Qt3D somehow? I mean 
> theoretically it should depend just on Qt Core and Qt Qml.
> I was thinking of implementing my own little engine using bgfx 
> rendering framework and use minimal Qt Core and Qt Qml dependencies 
> because of that. But on the other hand Qt3D is so well designed and I 
> will just waste time trying to replicate something that is 
> already available. Not to mention that this would be a serious 
> undertaking.
>
>
>
>
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