[simion314]

I am wondering what is the issue with dynamically linking Qt, are developers statically linking with MS c/c++ runtime or GUI libs ? From my experience you must install c++ runtimes on windows or if you use C# you need to ask your user to make sure to have it installed, where with Qt you ship the dlls.

[dwaite]

My understanding is that Windows has an odd memory allocation system where each DLL has its own allocator. Qt historically wasn't designed for that; it will allocate and return objects on the heap with the understanding that user code will free them.

They may have solved this since by using a custom allocator on windows for Qt types.

[simion314]

Is this related to statically linking? HOW are alternatives like Electron? can you bundle your Electron app into a big binary file ? From my experience in year back when doing desktop apps there was never a pressure to combine your dependencies into 1 big binary