Location of the QT plugins

[fiersik]

The libraries libhyprland-quick-style-impl.so and libhyprland-quick-style.so do not have their own SOVERSION and logically appear to be plugins. If that is the case, shouldn't they be installed in QT_PLUGIN_DIR (e.g., /usr/lib64/qt6/plugins/)? Currently, they are being installed in LIBDIR. Is this correct, or is it a mistake?

[vaxerski]

@outfoxxed

[outfoxxed]

I picked the libdir instead of qt's plugin dir because both qt itself and kde package qml modules the same way. We could try the plugin dir but it doesn't seem to be the conventional way to handle it.

[fiersik]

In my opinion, it is better to follow the concept, this is a plugin, and it has no place in libdir.

[fiersik]

How about searching for a plugin first in one directory and then in another?

[outfoxxed]

Library dependencies such as the ones between the exported .so files are usually resolved via RUNPATH or RPATH. Not putting it there makes it impossible for the dynamic linker to find.

Additionally the libraries you see in /lib aren't actually qt plugins. The plugin binaries live inside their respective qml module folders.

While it's possible to change the rpath, it shouldn't go in the plugins folder, anddepending on the distro it may be replaced with a more generic string.

If you can find some other qt applications successfully packaged with a qml module rpath I can look further into it.