> On Nov 14, 2014, at 7:44 AM, Morten Johan Sørvig <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> >> On 14 Nov 2014, at 02:58, Hanspeter Niederstrasser <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >> On OS X, Qt is building plugins as dynamic libraries, instead of >> bundles, which is the more appropriate format for the platform. This was >> filed as QTBUG 2227 six years ago, but it was marked as closed without >> any work done on it, even though there was a patch listed. For the Fink >> package manager, we have been successful in locally patching the Qt4 and >> Qt5 sources to correct the plugin file type and extension. >> >> However, when I tried to start building the KDE5 frameworks on OS X, a >> new related issue appeared whereas the Qt5 cmake files referenced the >> plugin with the original .dylib extension and not the patched .so >> extension that the physical file is now using (this is all documented in >> QTBUG 2227). I have not been able to find the code that generates the >> .cmake files to figure out why it is not honoring the file extension >> change. It was suggested on IRC that I reach out to the qt-dev mailing >> list to get a fresh look at QTBUG 2227. Thank you for your help, > > > We could add a fink mkspec, where you can configure the plugin file type and > extension, effectively upstreaming your patches. > > Or are you saying that the only useful action is to have Qt change the > default plugin extension? That would be difficult, at least in the short term > where there are already couple of build system changes in progress (code > signing updates, @rpath transition). > > cmake would have to be patched in both cases of course. > > Morten > > > > _______________________________________________ > Development mailing list > [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > http://lists.qt-project.org/mailman/listinfo/development > <http://lists.qt-project.org/mailman/listinfo/development>
Yeah, Qt plugins should absolutely be packaged as bundles (loadable modules). I’ve mentioned this before; I think this is a good next aim for 5.5. Shouldn’t be much more work than changing the extension from .dylib to .bundle and adding the -bundle linker flag, though they should be actual CFBundles too, not just flat files. I reopened the issue. -- Jake Petroules - jake.petroules at petroules.com Chief Technology Officer - Petroules Corporation
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