[Qt-interest] Creation of installation package for QT project ?

Alessandro Portale Alessandro.Portale at trolltech.com
Thu Jun 25 00:11:30 CEST 2009


Patric schrieb:
> Anyway, I would be glad to know is the QT installation from the SDK 
> automatically set to static or dynamic.
> In my QT libs folder C:\Qt\2009.02\qt\lib I have mainly .a and .prl 
> files, so I guess by default QT library is statically linked ? But in my 
> bin directory C:\Qt\2009.02\qt\bin I also see all the .dlls .
> I'm a little bit confused.

The binary package comes with a dynamic build of Qt, which means that 
the applications built against it will require the Qt DLLs. The (small) 
static libs which You have in qt\lib\ are just the "import libraries".
See:
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamic-link_library#Import_libraries

Alessandro



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