QT for cross platform plugin development?

Question

I have a pre existing application, that calls out into a plugin library. I want the plugin library to be developed in QT, and to be able to display a QT UI.

However, when I attempt to create a QWidget it complains that the QApplication needs to be created first.

Is it not possible to use QT to develop cross platform plugins? E.g. a netscape plugin for Chrome or Firefox. I do not, and cannot, control the app's main loop.

Answer 1

As explain in the Qt documentation, any GUI application using Qt needs a QApplication to be created into main thread since it is containing all signal engine and event loop.

Answer 2

There is Qt/MFC Migration Framework that can help you to build plugins if the main application where the plugin is laoded is Win32 or Mfc. Qt/MFC Migration Framework