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static and shared libs of Qt and MinGW

• Subject: static and shared libs of Qt and MinGW
• From: Michael Mustun <michael@xxxxxxxxx>
• Date: Sun, 03 Dec 2006 20:52:08 +0100
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Hello

I'm using Qt 4.2.1 for Windows.

Per default, Qt comes with libQtCore4.a and so on in the .\lib\ directory.

It whould be very cool, that the user/programmer has the possibility to 
build his app once with shared, another once with static libs of QT and 
mingw-libs.

It should be possible, to have a
   make release-static
or somethings like that.
   make release  // with shared Qt-libs
   make [debug]  // default
   make release-static  // with STATIC Qt-libs
   ...          // whatever


To have a "make release-static" is very important, because if you whant 
to distribute your apps, you dont need to bundle all needed Qt- und 
mingw- DLL libs.

I know, there is a
   configure -static
option.

This will also change the config files for qmake in \mkspecs\ dir?!
And prepares for recompile the whole Qt to build all(?) libs static.

But, why did Trolltech not shipping static AND shared libs? Then, I only 
need a switch in the pro file or better, with make release-static or 
similar.

Bye
   Michael

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