X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.5 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,SPF_HELO_PASS,TW_BQ,TW_IB,T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com From: Phil Bouchard Subject: Re: Qt Creator & static libqt-mt.a Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2011 13:23:35 -0400 Lines: 7 Message-ID: References: <1310452987 DOT 8576 DOT 47 DOT camel AT YAAKOV04> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:5.0) Gecko/20110624 Thunderbird/5.0 In-Reply-To: <1310452987.8576.47.camel@YAAKOV04> X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com On 7/12/2011 2:43 AM, Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote: > > Why? A static Qt means no plugins, which is pretty worthless. Distributing a standalone executable is much simpler than distributing an archive full of DLLs. Plugins are needed only for drivers, fancy fonts, etc. not for a standard application. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple