Plugin Classes

These Qt Core classes deal with shared libraries, (e.g. .so and DLL files), and with Qt plugins.

See the How to Create Qt Plugins page for more information..

See also the ActiveQt framework for Windows.

QIconEnginePlugin

QImageIOPlugin

QGenericPlugin

QGenericPluginFactory

QStylePlugin

QLibrary

Loads shared libraries at runtime

Defining Plugins

The <QtPlugin> header file defines macros for defining plugins.

QPluginLoader

Loads a plugin at run-time