Application Plugins in Windows [XP]

[dcurtis]

So the only problem I can think of is a problem with the manifests / side by side assemblies. The goal was to simplify the dll hell with those crap, but ...
Try to load the dll with QLibrary and see if it works - when it works, the manifest shouldn't be the problem.

Well, i've debugged the problem and here it is;

in vs2005, it automatically embeds the manifest into the .dll / .exe file. For some reason if you do embed the manifest into a plugin dll, it will NOT load. I don't know why but that is the problem. I recompiled all my plugins without the manifest and they run fine. I'm going to attempt to use the command line tools to embed the manifest and see if there is the same problem just for my own curiosity. Thanks for all your replies. Thanks cmake! Really i love it but damn, what a bug.


/edit: also, if you embed the manifest into the plugin dll using mt.exe (rather than letting VS2005 do it for you, it does not cause a problem!) What the heck MS...