[Qt-interest] Question on static building of qt based libs

[Thiago Macieira]

Em Terça-feira 2. Março 2010, às 08.09.57, Matthias Pospiech escreveu:
> I have a external (open source) library which is build using qt, but has
> no dll export declarations,
> which means that I can not have .lib files for msvc (mingw works though).
> If I compile this lib static, does this require any other lib (e.g. the
> qt libs), to be static build as well,
> or is this completely independend and nothing I need to worry about?

Hi Matthias

If a given library is static, everything that depends on it must link to it 
statically. And you can't link a DLL to a static library, but you can link a 
program.

So if this library of yours is used only in your application but not by 
anything else, it's safe to link it statically and use it normally.

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