Qt SQLCipher Driver with MSVC

[Palsy]

Thanks for this. After stressing and much trial and error over a week, I did manage to get it building and find out what the remaining issue I had was.

Basically the issue I am having now is getting the OpenSSL libeay32 .a files to build, when I've compiled OpenSSL it didn't generate all the files needed for me to complete the build. So I had a DLL plugin building, which didn't work completely at all.

In the end I've opted for a different SQLite encryption alternative. So got to where I wanted in the end, just different means to the end.

I may go back to the SQLCipher project itself and see if I can sort it at another point with 5.7, if I'm unhappy with this alternative I've found.

Thanks to you all for your help, learnt a lot in the process, even if it didn't quite solve the issues for me.

[d_stranz]

libeay32 .a files to build

There's no such thing as a .a file in the MSVC world. Maybe you meant to say .lib?

[Palsy]

Yep, and it built that. The project file contained libs for .a (linux), .lib, and I think one other (using a template instructions I found, which were for MinGW).

In any case I built it with the .lib as well, but came across linker issues. Would I need to include the .def as well?

I wasn't sure if the other files / something was missing preventing it from working. The dll was building to a size of 10kb, so obviously wasn't right.

This is all a few days ago now and since moving on, I haven't kept a proper record of what steps I took, so apologies for any confusion.

As I say, I'll probably revisit the .pro file another time. Less of a priority for now as I have something else, but would be good if I can solve it and document it for anybody else looking for a guide to installing a plugin for it.