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    wrote on 17 Apr 2020, 01:49 last edited by
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    The QT dlls come in pairs: NAME.dll and NAMEd.dll , for the release and debug versions. However, on my link line, I only ever mention NAME.lib . How does the linker arrive at NAMEd.dll for the dynamic link, in the case of a debug build?

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      wrote on 17 Apr 2020, 05:25 last edited by
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      qmake handles this behind the scenes when you call module include like QT += gui.

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        17 Apr 2020, 05:25

        qmake handles this behind the scenes when you call module include like QT += gui.

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        wrote on 17 Apr 2020, 06:19 last edited by
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        @sierdzio I don't use qmake, just regular make, and I can see the link command line has only NAME.lib .

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          17 Apr 2020, 06:19

          @sierdzio I don't use qmake, just regular make, and I can see the link command line has only NAME.lib .

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          wrote on 17 Apr 2020, 06:25 last edited by
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          @normvcr said in QT dll names:

          @sierdzio I don't use qmake, just regular make, and I can see the link command line has only NAME.lib .

          oh, then it means I was wrong. Interesting! Maybe the linker is clever enough to handle this case? Or maybe you are building debug (your app) but linking release Qt?

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            17 Apr 2020, 06:25

            @normvcr said in QT dll names:

            @sierdzio I don't use qmake, just regular make, and I can see the link command line has only NAME.lib .

            oh, then it means I was wrong. Interesting! Maybe the linker is clever enough to handle this case? Or maybe you are building debug (your app) but linking release Qt?

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            wrote on 17 Apr 2020, 06:40 last edited by
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            @sierdzio I think you're second option is correct. I did

            dumpbin /dependents
            

            on both the debug and release versions of my util, and they have the same release QT dlls. I guess I never had to step into the QT code :-) . Usually, I get link errors when mixing debug with release, stemming from different array instrumentations. Sounds like QT was careful about this, to allow the mixing of debug with release -- unix-like.

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