Re: [Mingw-cross-env-list] Qt5 Windows platform plugin location

[Tony Theodore]

On 21 Jan 2014, at 08:21, Mark Brand <address@hidden> wrote:

> 
> 
>> 
>> 1. Should that platform library path be output by ${host}-pkg-config
>> --libs? If so for which package?
>> 2. How do I determine automatically which additional libraries I need to
>> link against for that platform library? Preferably via ${host}-pkg-config.
>> 
>> If you agree that this should be improved from MXE's side then I'm willing
>> to develop patches to MXE's Qt5 installation routines.
> 
> Hi Moritz,
> 
> I'm afraid I don't have much more to offer than a few hints.
> 
> As far as I know, the Qt build system does not generate .pc files covering 
> static plugins, and plugins are not mentioned in other .pc files as 
> dependencies.. 

Somewhat related, the previous workaround of copying the generated *.pc files 
to the standard pkg-config search path would have only worked for qtbase so 
I’ve added the qt5 install dir to PKG_CONFIG_PATH instead:

        https://github.com/mxe/mxe/compare/1bc3ef2...c832641

There is a Qt5PlatformSupport.pc file that seems like a good place for 
additional “-L” paths.

The generated *.pc files of the other qt5 packages have the same issue of a 
debug suffix:

        https://bugreports.qt-project.org/browse/QTBUG-30898

though the workaround of calling qmake as:

        QMAKE="$(1)/bin/qmake CONFIG-='debug debug_and_release’"

isn’t ideal. This does seem to be something that is best addressed upstream, 
but I can’t really see how the *.pc files are created.


Cheers,

Tony