On Mon, Jan 5, 2015 at 11:13 AM, Cristian Adam <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi, > > I've installed Qt 5.4 Mingw-4.9.1 > (qt-opensource-windows-x86-mingw491_opengl-5.4.0.exe) > and I've noticed that the Qt Creator bundled with it was compiled with > MSVC 2010 and had its > own version of Qt 5.4 MSVC 2010 DLLs (~100MB) > > What is the reason for this? > > Is Mingw-GCC 4.9.1 that bad, that a MSVC 2010 build of Qt Creator was > needed? > > qt-opensource-windows-x86-msvc2013_opengl-5.4.0.exe - 694MB > qt-opensource-windows-x86-mingw491_opengl-5.4.0.exe - 852MB > > Mingw-GCC is known to produce bigger binaries, but there is no reason to > bloat the > installer, right? > > Hmm, the same happened with qt-opensource-windows-x86-msvc2013_opengl-5.4.0.exe. I think Qt Creator was build once for Windows and included in all installers. >From my point of view Qt Creator should have been build with the same Qt version that was installed, reusing the Qt shared libraries, minimizing disk space and bandwidth... Cheers, Cristian.
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