QQuickStaticHelloWorld

Demonstrate the use of QtStaticCMake.cmake script to compile with a static qt version a qt quick application. This CMake project demonstrate how to link to static plugin.

Build and run

git clone https://github.com/OlivierLDff/QQuickStaticHelloWorld
cd QQuickStaticHelloWorld
mkdir build && cd build
cmake -DCMAKE_PREFIX_PATH=/path/to/qt-static ..
cmake --build . --config Release
./QQuickStaticHelloWorld

Overview

The main issue when linking to a static version of qt is to get all the plugin at execution time. For that qt provide a Q_IMPORT_PLUGIN macro that force the linking of a plugin.

Qt 5.14 a new qt5_import_plugin macro, and by itself provide some .cpp file with the Q_IMPORT_PLUGIN for some plugin such as Svg.

But qt isn't providing linking to qml plugin (library found in qml/ folder). This project show how to import plugin by scanning your qml files and using the qt_generate_qml_plugin_import function from QtStaticCMake project.

This project will require update for Qt 5.15 and Qt 6 since lot of stuff are going to move and change. Only use this project with Qt 5.14 or lower for now.

Feel free to improve, comment, etc.