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

[zeljko]

On Monday 30 of January 2012 20:17:22 Andrew Haines wrote:
> On 01/30/12 02:19, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote:
> > On 29 January 2012 16:31, Jonas Maebe  wrote:
> >> 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.
> > 
> > Can one statically bind the LibQt4Pas into a FPC program, thus not
> > require to ship an external libqt4pas DLL/SO? If possible, that might
> > solve the original posters problem.
> 
> It seems to me that you could compile qt4pas.c (or what ever the source
> file(s) of libqt4pas.so is) into a qt4pas.o and just link them
> statically with {$link qt4pas.o} which then would leave out the
> requirement for libqt4pas.so to be distributed with any program using
> the qt interface. The gpl? license may or may not make that possible
> though.

hm..this looks pretty interesting. Have you tried that ?

zeljko
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