[Qt-interest] Qt 4.7.2 does not create libqgif.a and libqjpeg.a plugins

Mark Brand mabrand at mabrand.nl
Wed Apr 13 21:48:22 CEST 2011


> Hi,
>
> I'm compiling Qt 4.7.2 with -static and -qt-gif and -qt-jpeg to create
> qt plugins to embed them in my application. But Qt is not creating these
> libraries. Is that correct? Because my 4.5.2 version does create these
> plugins.
>

Yes, that is correct. For -static, the default is now to build gif, 
jpeg, mng and tiff image handlers into QtGui instead of as plugins. This 
saves you the extra trouble of static linking to plugins.

Mark



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