[Interest] Creating a DLL with a Qt Project with static Qt

[Hamish Moffatt]

On 01/09/18 01:29, Etienne Sandré-Chardonnal wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> I am reopening an old Windows project which was building a DLL. That 
> DLL is not a Qt plugin, it is a plain DLL with a custom interface.
>
> Now, I am using Qt static (commercial license) and it seems that 
> because of this, qmake generates a static library (.a) instead of a dll.
>
> Is there a way to change that behavior?

If you use

TEMPLATE = lib
CONFIG += dll

then you should get what you want.

(Or CONFIG += plugin if you don't want libxyz.so.1.0.0, just libxyz.so.)

Hamish