Are you including only the minimal set of Qt dlls needed for your application?
On Fri, Aug 7, 2015 at 8:31 AM, Rafael Machado < rafaelrodrigues.mach...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi everyone > > This is my first question on this mail list, so sorry for possible trivial > questions. > > I have task to reduce the size of an installer of an application from my > company. > What I checked is that the qt dlls that we use are kind of big, so my idea > was to try to reduce these dlls sizes. > > To do it I have compiled qt removing several modules that we don't use. > Something like: > > configure -release -confirm-license -opensource -nomake examples -nomake > tests -no-evdev -no-mtdev -no-inotify -no-system-proxies -no-fontconfig > -no-harfbuzz -no-plugin-manifests -no-ssl -no-openssl -no-dbus > -no-audio-backend -no-wmf-backend -no-qml-debug -no-directwrite > -no-direct2d -no-native-gestures -no-style-windows -no-style-windowsxp > -no-style-windowsvista -no-style-fusion -skip qt3d -skip qtactiveqt -skip > qtandroidextras -skip qtdoc -skip qtdocgallery -skip qtfeedback -skip > qtlocation -skip qtmacextras -skip qtmultimedia -skip qtrepotools -skip > qtscript -skip qtsensors -skip qtserialport -skip qtsvg -skip qttools -skip > qttranslations -skip qtwayland -skip qtwebengine -skip qtwebkit -skip > qtwebkit-examples -skip qtwinextras -skip qtx11extras > > After doing this, the qtcore.dll was reduced from 4.928.000 bytes > to 4.617.728 bytes. > > I have checked at the documentation, and there are some options to remove > some features from the packages. For example, in case, we don't need the > feature UDPSOCKET for example, so adding to the configuration command the > option -no-feature-UDPSOCKET should remove unneeded things. (Features found > at C:\cygwin\home\.............\qtbase\src\corelib\global\qfeatures.txt) > > The problem is that the option to remove features seems to be available > just for linux-embedded and not for the windows version of qt. > Is my understanding correct ? > > The last question. Is if is there any other option to try to reduce the > .dll sizes ? > > Thanks for the help. > > Thanks and Regards > Rafael R. Machado > > _______________________________________________ > Interest mailing list > Interest@qt-project.org > http://lists.qt-project.org/mailman/listinfo/interest > >
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