[Interest] [Development] Qt static compiler error

[Matthew Woehlke]

On 2015-10-26 11:31, Thiago Macieira wrote:
> On Monday 26 October 2015 15:57:30 kl222 wrote:
>> Hi all:
>>
>> Qt statically build program is fail.
>>
>> libQt5Core.a depend on libpcre16
>>
>> libQt5Gui.a depend on -lopengl32, -lglu32
>>
>> What do I?
> 
> You link to those libraries.
> 
>> ../ThirdLibary/windows_mingw_static/qt/lib/libQt5Core.a(qregularexpression.o
>> ):qregularexpression.cpp:(.text+0x261): undefined reference to `pcre16_exec'
> 
>> ../ThirdLibary/windows_mingw_static/qt/lib/libQt5Core.a(qeventdispatcher_win
>> .o):qeventdispatcher_win.cpp:(.text+0x8db): undefined reference to
>> `_imp__WSAAsyncSelect at 16'
> 
> If you're doing a static link, you need to link to the indirect dependencies. 
> The full library list is in the .prl and .pc files for each library. Looks 
> like cmake doesn't automatically add that...
> 
> This doesn't look like a Qt bug, so please drop the development at qt-project.org 
> mailing list when replying. This is a normal user error.

Shouldn't Qt5Config.cmake provide those interface libraries for static
Qt libraries? It seems to me it should, and since Qt is shipping its
Qt5Config.cmake these days, that would imply that the problem can/should
be fixed in Qt itself...

-- 
Matthew