Statically-built Qt4.8.4 cannot build DLL for a Shared Library

Code_ReaQtor

Greetings!

I built Qt 4.8.4 statically with msvc...

Here are the commands I used in building:
@configure -static -debug-and-release
nmake sub-src@

Successfully built it. and it works.

I got the only problem when building a Shared Library that I wrote. AFAIK, building shared libs supposedly output dll files.
This "link":http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2649334/difference-between-static-and-shared-libraries explains the difference between static and shared libraries.

Although my applications work when linking them to my library but getting LNK4217 warnings.

should i build another Qt in -shared configuration (since -shared-and-static is mac osx specific)

What i want to get from it is that I have a static MyApp.exe linked to MyLib.dll and these 2 files are present when I deploy my application. (MyApp.exe will not work without MyLib.dll)

Thanks and more powers!

Sam

Hi,

I dont know whether this will be of any help, there are few tutorials on "How to Create a DLL":http://voidrealms.com/viewtutorial.aspx?id=243 , "How to use a DLL":http://voidrealms.com/viewtutorial.aspx?id=244 and "Static Libary":http://voidrealms.com/viewtutorial.aspx?id=245 . You can take a look at these tutorials that explains the basics of creating a static library.

Regards
Soumitra.

Code_ReaQtor

OK, I found out that statically built Qt cannot produce dll files which can only be produced with "shared Qt". Though you can link a "statically-built" app with a "shared-built" dll/library file, you may end up adding the QtGui, QtCore, etc DLLS since it is needed by your generated library.

Thanks for the link though. One of these days I will try to read those. Cheers and more powers!

PS. I will not YET mark this thread as [solved]. I am waiting for other devs to post if they found solution to this problem.