Re: [Mingw-cross-env-list] Unneeded Qt dependency

[Nikos Chantziaras]

On 06/28/2011 07:54 PM, René Berber wrote:
> Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
>
> >     #include<QtPlugin>
> >     Q_IMPORT_PLUGIN(qcncodecs)
> >     Q_IMPORT_PLUGIN(qjpcodecs)
> >     Q_IMPORT_PLUGIN(qtwcodecs)
> >     Q_IMPORT_PLUGIN(qkrcodecs)
>
> Hold on, plugins only work if your application uses dynamic linking but
> with mingw-cross we are (usually) building static linked applications or
> to be precise dynamic linked system (Windows) libraries, static for
> everything else.  I know I can change things to make full dynamic
> linking work for Qt (I've done it before).

No, the above is specifically for static Qt builds.  It won't work with 
a shared Qt.  See:

http://doc.qt.nokia.com/latest/plugins-howto.html#static-plugins

This is a mechanism for including static plugins in static builds, 
because a static Qt will not load plugins at runtime.


> What version of mingw-cross shows the problem?  I haven't seen any
> problem with translated texts in a static linked application built about
> 6 weeks ago.

2.21.  But even if the bug was application specific (meaning I screwed 
up), libiconv is not used on Windows; it is used only to detect the 
current Unix locale.  So "-no-iconv" makes sense regardless.