[Buildroot] [PATCH 1/2] qwt: compile as a static lib if QT_SHARED is not selected
Arnout Vandecappelle
arnout at mind.be
Tue Jan 27 20:42:53 UTC 2015
On 25/01/15 23:20, Peter Korsgaard wrote:
>>>>>> "Thomas" == Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com> writes:
[snip]
> > I think we should get rid of BR2_PACKAGE_QT_SHARED completely, and use
> > BR2_STATIC_LIBS here instead.
>
> I agree that it would be cleaner, but the reason the explicit QT_SHARED
> stuff was added was afaik a lot of systems only needed Qt in a single
> application / that application only used a subset of the Qt
> functionality, so having a static libQt while everything else was shared
> was quite a big win in size / startup time.
But can't you just build with BR2_SHARED_STATIC_LIBS and link your application
with --static? That's what BR2_SHARED_STATIC_LIBS was meant for, right?
Regards,
Arnout
>
> It does complicate LGPL compliance and I don't know if the disk space
> concerns are as big these days though.
>
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