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  1. Qt
  2. QTBUG-9110

QT_DLL, QT_MAKEDLL and QT_SHARED macros need proper documentation

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    • Bug
    • Resolution: Done
    • P3: Somewhat important
    • 5.0.0
    • 4.6.2
    • Documentation
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    Description

      QT_DLL, QT_MAKEDLL and QT_SHARED in qwebkitglobal.h and phonon_export.h

      It seems there some confusion over the meaning of these macros (particularly QT_DLL vs QT_SHARED) so this attempts to document what we did and why

      Easy one first - QT_MAKEDLL - this means you're building the Qt libraries themselves, as DLLs (ie static)

      QT_DLL - means that the Qt libraries were built as DLLs, rather than statically; but the important question is - is this a subset of QT_SHARED, an alternative to QT_SHARED on platforms that use DLLs rather than shared objects or something else? We opted for considering it a alternative to QT_SHARED in the header files above.

      QT_SHARED - reverse set of questions to QT_DLL, again we've opted to understand it as shared object, rather than DLL-based, platforms.

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            thiago Thiago Macieira
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