- Qt 6.4
- Qt Core
- CMake Commands in Qt6 Core
- qt_import_plugins
- Qt 6.4.2 Reference Documentation

# qt_import_plugins

Specifies a custom set of plugins to import for a static Qt build.

The command is defined in the `Core` component of the `Qt6` package, which can be loaded like so:

     find_package(Qt6 REQUIRED COMPONENTS Core)

This command was introduced in Qt 5.14.

## Synopsis

     qt_import_plugins(target
                       [INCLUDE plugin ...]
                       [EXCLUDE plugin ...]
                       [INCLUDE_BY_TYPE plugin_type plugin ...]
                       [EXCLUDE_BY_TYPE plugin_type]
                       [NO_DEFAULT]
     )

If versionless commands are disabled, use `qt6_import_plugins()` instead. It supports the same set of arguments as this command.

## Description

Specifies a custom set of plugins to import. The optional arguments: `INCLUDE`, `EXCLUDE`, `INCLUDE_BY_TYPE`, and `EXCLUDE_BY_TYPE`, can be used more than once.

- `INCLUDE` -- can be used to specify a list of plugins to import.
- `EXCLUDE` -- can be used to specify a list of plugins to exclude.
- `INCLUDE_BY_TYPE` -- can be used to override the list of plugins to import for a certain plugin type.
- `EXCLUDE_BY_TYPE` -- can be used to specify a plugin type to exclude; then no plugins of that type are imported.
- `NO_DEFAULT` -- prevent the default plugins from being included automatically (for example, the default platform plugin).

Qt provides plugin types such as `imageformats`, `platforms`, and `sqldrivers`.

If the command isn't used the target automatically links against a sane set of default plugins, for each Qt module that the target is linked against. For more information, see target_link_libraries.

Each plugin comes with a C++ stub file that automatically initializes the plugin. Consequently, any target that links against a plugin has this C++ file added to its `SOURCES`.

Note: This command imports plugins from static Qt builds only. On shared builds, it does nothing.

## Examples

     add_executable(myapp main.cpp)
     target_link_libraries(myapp Qt::Gui Qt::Sql)
     qt_import_plugins(myapp
         INCLUDE Qt::QCocoaIntegrationPlugin
         EXCLUDE Qt::QMinimalIntegrationPlugin
         INCLUDE_BY_TYPE imageformats Qt::QGifPlugin Qt::QJpegPlugin
         EXCLUDE_BY_TYPE sqldrivers
     )

In the snippet above, the following occurs with the executable `myapp`:

- The `Qt6::QCocoaIntegrationPlugin` is imported into myapp.
- The `Qt6::QMinimalIntegrationPlugin` plugin is excluded from being automatically imported into myapp.
- The default list of plugins for `imageformats` is overridden to only include Qt6::QGifPlugin and Qt6::QJpegPlugin.
- All `sqldrivers` plugins are excluded from automatic importing.

See also qt_import_qml_plugins().