[fpc-pascal] libQT4Pas - Why it is needed?

[Jonas Maebe]

On 29 Jan 2012, at 15:29, Krzysztof wrote:

> But why when I build application on
> KDE interface I need some external libQT4Pas to run it and my friend
> need it too (he have KDE so all QT librarys too)? There is no
> libGTK4Pas so why exists layer libQT4Pas? What is difference between
> GTK and QT librarys?

GTK offers a plain C interface. QT only offers a C++ interface. FPC does not (fully) support directly calling external C++ libraries. LibQT4Pas offers a plain C interface to QT for use by FPC.


Jonas