Qt Designer can't find plugins

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snorri

Beginner

Posts: 6

Thursday, October 11th 2007, 6:21am

Qt Designer can't find plugins

Hey lads,

Just trying to get qt designer working properly. I have two boxes, one linux with a shared qt library and one windows with a static qt library.

Problem is with plugins. The linux system with a shared qt build picks up all the plugins (notably arthurplugin), but the windows box doesn't. The windows system has these libraries (c:\qt\4.3.1\plugins\designer\libarthurplugin.a), and qt's path is working fine for everything else. But nonetheless, designer can't find them.

No idea where to go on this one, anyone had the same experience?

Cheers.

stinos

Intermediate

Posts: 225

Thursday, October 11th 2007, 3:53pm

did you build the plugin in release mode? I seem to remember having read a thread here about qwt plugins.. they didn't show up in designer unless built in release

madinsjamania

snorri

Beginner

Posts: 6

Friday, October 12th 2007, 1:10am

aye, everything in release. Both my plugin (which works on the linux box) and the libarthur plugin are release versions.

stinos

Intermediate

Posts: 225

Friday, October 12th 2007, 7:51am

mm no idea what's the problem then.. are you sure the plugin itself can find and load all libraries it needs?
and maybe check here plugin does not load or search for "designer plugin" or so

madinsjamania

snorri

Beginner

Posts: 6

Monday, October 15th 2007, 1:11am

worked it out

Got a feeling that designer must use (loadable?) shared libraries - subsequently designer plugins must be built as shared libraries. I was initially worried that my project would have to depend on shared plugin libraries, but that's irrelevant here - if you include your component through designer, all the code is jammed into your .ui files.

So...built all the system designer plugins and my plugins as shared and no problems now.

This post has been edited 1 times, last edit by "snorri" (Oct 15th 2007, 1:12am)