Custom names for Qt libraries?

[wysota]

Are you sure that some exports are actually missing? Trolltech is very sensitive about it to provide backward compatibility... Maybe one of the libraries is a custom build that simply doesn't have some of the features of the other one?

[Eldritch]

Yes, I'm sure about the break in compatibility, and have gotten confirmation from Trolltech that this happened. They apparently didn't realize this!? Honestly, I'm quite surprised that they don't run a check on their exports e.g. something as simple as diffing results from dumpbin when readying a new version).

Between 4.1 and 4.2, for example, some exports in QtGui disappeared (a couple of what may have been inadvertant QVector::append exports, for example).

Clearly, 'future' exports can't be maintained, e.g. 4.3 stuff won't be in 4.2. But losing exports when moving to newer versions is bad, bad bad. I did the check using the binaries that Trolltech ships, so this problem is not due to special builds and whatnot.