Nothing actually. It just seems to me that a compact single binary is better than binary + a bunch of .dlls Also, if you for any reason remove or overwrite the dlls, you break your application, which does not happen with static plugins. But you are probably right that this is not a big deal. Cestmir On Tue, Dec 6, 2011 at 7:49 PM, Bohdan Maslowski <bohdan.maslowski@xxxxxxxxx > wrote: > What's so bad about dynamic plugins? > > On Tue, Dec 6, 2011 at 7:45 PM, Cestmir Houska <czestmyr@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Hello everyone, > > > > after no success today when trying to get my test plugin link into the > > updraft skeleton, I googled some more and found the following webpage: > > > > http://developer.qt.nokia.com/wiki/QtPlugins > > > > Look at the bottom into the FAQ. They state that dynamic Qt cannot load > > static plugins and vice versa. We will need dynamic plugins, thus the > only > > way for us is to link against Qt dynamically, thus we have to use only > > dynamic plugins. This does not look good at all... > > > > Cestmir > > To visit archive or unsubscribe, follow: > //www.freelists.org/list/glideplan_swproj >