Writing Your Own Lighthouse Backend

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How to write Lighthouse backends

The short version: Look at the files in

That should show what needs to be implemented to get a new plugin off the ground.

[ More detailed documentation to follow ]

Please note that all APIs are private and subject to change. (This is a research project after all.) Even if Lighthouse at some point gets included in an official Qt release, we will not promise binary compatibility between minor versions: A Lighthouse plugin is tied to a specific version of Qt, just as much as the individual Qt libraries are tied together.

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