c++ - How can I embed a Qt resource into a .dll file?

Question

I have hundreds of HTML files in my project, and I don't want to compile all of these HTML files into an .exe. Therefore I'd like to build my HTML files into a .dll file instead.

How can I embed such a Qt resource into a .dll file or other type of compiled library?

Answer 1

Are you going to use the dll only for the html files or is it going to contain code too? If the dll would be only for the html files, create an external external resource file instead.

Compile the qrc file to external resource file:

rcc -binary myresource.qrc -o myresource.rcc

Register the resource file in your exe:

QResource::registerResource("/path/to/myresource.rcc");