It's perfectly possible to create static plugins in an otherwise shared Qt build, but the logic to import these plugins into applications was assuming a fully static Qt build. We now handle this more granularly. This works for in-source tools and tests as well, which don't go through the same CMake machinery for plugins as user projects do. The only case that does not currently work is in-source examples, as they don't share any of the plugin machinery with neither Qt internal tools/tests or user project, but that's a bigger architectural issue that goes beyond this change. Change-Id: Ie00a97b02ac38ec4affadc447a3bfd0ec7d9c69a Reviewed-by: Alexandru Croitor <alexandru.croitor@qt.io>