Re: GUI toolkit support

Paul Davis <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.audio.ardour.user
Message-ID <CAFa_cKnPj2VR-+0Uh5hPNVUoBCcaG--wNOnTEOV+KqnbeekovQ@mail.gmail.com>
On Fri, Nov 16, 2018 at 3:16 PM Gunter Königsmann <[email protected]>
wrote:

> What I don't understand is: Why cannot the plugin makers link their
> plugins statically? This way they no more depend on the application that
> uses them using exactly the Right libraries...
>

Neither Qt nor GTK can be fully statically linked into an application. They
both use run-time/dynamic linking to pull in optional
features/functionality.

They also both have global static variables and other design issues that
prevent correct operation if two different major versions are present in
the same address space.

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