Up til now, QQmlImports would always assume module plugins are dynamically linked, and as such, go looking for them on the file system. This would fail for plugins linked in statically. This patch will hook into QQmlImports at the place where it iterates through all plugins in a qmldir and try to load them dynamically. If some plugins cannot be resolved, we now do an extra interation over static plugins to check if any of them has the correct uri specified in their metadata. Hooking into the loading process this late, will ensure that as much code as possible is shared between dynamic and static plugin loading so that setting up base urls, namespaces and guards will remain the same. Note: this patch is one out of several patches that is needed to build QML2 apps statically, and depends on plugins reporting their URI through the plugin meta data system. This will be injected automatically by qmake+moc. Task-number: QTBUG-28357 Change-Id: If9a204e942ca7003448e188a1a47eec69b34c37b Reviewed-by: Simon Hausmann <simon.hausmann@digia.com>