Need a advise for building custom plugin with dependency

[alizadeh91]

Hello friends,
I want to create a custom plugin for qtcreator and i did it successfully. (Qt 5 beta2). What i want to do now is to link this plugin with custom shared library which i created. What is the best way and safest way to do this? I want to use either plugin and library into my application and as i said the plugin needs library.

Do i need to put my library into my plugin directory then build it or just give its build directory to plugin?

Another Question:
I have created a single library and in this library and in one filei get some properties of database connection from text file. I want to build this library.
How can i give this text file for this library . This file must be visible to users.
Should i just put this file beside dll and lib file?

Thanks for useful hints

[alizadeh91]

Any Suggestion for second part! :

I have created a single library and in this library and in one filei get some properties of database connection from text file. I want to build this library.
How can i give this text file for this library . This file must be visible to users.
Should i just put this file beside dll and lib file?

[wysota]

You can put the file wherever you want where the library routine that needs it can find it.

[alizadeh91]

Thanks Wysota
I put the file beside the cpp file in library, and set the file path in cpp to currentPath. if i build the lib, is it enough to put the file beside the dll file whenever it is?

[wysota]

No. currentPath() returns the current working directory. The location of your DLL file is not related to the current working directory in any way. You can put the file in the same directory as the application binary and use QCoreApplication::applicationDirPath() though.