What are the weaknesses of the QPluginLoader approach?

Question

Here the official Qt Creator code repository:

git clone https://github.com/qtproject/qt-creator.git

Qt Creator uses QPluginLoader.

What are the weaknesses of the QPluginLoader approach? What are the differences from QLibrary?

Answer 1

QtPluginloader cannot be used if your application is statically linked against Qt.

In this case, you will also have to link to plugins statically. You can use QLibrary if you need to load dynamic libraries in a statically linked application.

http://doc.trolltech.com/4.6/qpluginloader.html

Hope it helps. Best Regards