[Interest] QMake, (static) libraries and LTCG (LTO) on Mac

René J. V. Bertin rjvbertin at gmail.com
Mon Nov 13 12:24:46 CET 2017


Thiago Macieira wrote:


> it's a limitation of your environment. Static linking LTCG precompiled code
> requires a special linker. It's not very well supported everywhere.

Erm, this is on Mac, and I am using a much more recent linker editor than the 
one from the system. I've been able to build Qt itself with LTCG (I rebuilt Qt4 
that way only a week or 2 ago) so while you're undoubtedly right in general I 
think this is not at cause here.




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