[Qt-interest] Fwd: Can I build Qt with built-in jpeg support ?

[Nikos Chantziaras]

On 02/14/2011 07:37 PM, Konstantin Tokarev wrote:
> 14.02.2011, 20:09, "Mark Brand"<mabrand at mabrand.nl>:
>>> [...]
>> You didn't mention which Qt version you are using.
>>
>> Before Qt 4.7.1 the image format handlers are plugins.
>>
>> Since Qt 4.7.1 the image format handlers can be built-in or plugin. The
>> comment explains it here:
>>
>> http://qt.gitorious.org/qt/qt/commit/802dc404d1af9a08fdc23ef32e2fbc77f138f70a
>>
>> Summary: Plugin-in for shared. Built-in for static.
>>
>> There is still no configure switch to override the default, although I
>> noticed that this has been added to the master branch.
>
> Could you explain what is the practical difference between static plugin
> and "built-in"?

When you build a static version of Qt, the jpeg library is built-in to Qt.