Hi Philippe, i am not the original poster. > Am 07.08.2015 um 23:49 schrieb Philippe <philw...@gmail.com>: > > The difference is that the DLLs remain compressed on the user's system. They > are uncompressed in the application memory space when the application is > launched, "instantly". > Obviosuly, this system does not save RAM in anyway (maybe that was your > original request, and in that case, look there for some optimizations: > http://www.drdobbs.com/rebasing-win32-dlls/184416272 > <http://www.drdobbs.com/rebasing-win32-dlls/184416272>). > > I sent you this link because I used this system successfully many years ago > (I have no relation ship to this company). Now I remember another system (and > free) that worked fine with me (and actually better in 64 bit at that time): > http://www.matcode.com/mpress.htm <http://www.matcode.com/mpress.htm> > I see today that a Mac version is also available. > > Philippe > > On Fri, 7 Aug 2015 23:06:01 +0900 > Gunnar Roth <gunnar.r...@gmx.de <mailto:gunnar.r...@gmx.de>> wrote: > > Hi Philippe > May i asked what the advantage is against a 7z compressed msi file? > If you remove code from code it gets smaller because you can still apply > compression afterwards and it gets even more smaller. > These exe compactors do not reduce the used RAM memory when loaded actually > afaik more memory is used because OS cannot page from dll file. > And why do you send a link to a commercial packer instead of UPX? > > Regards, > Gunnar > > > >> Am 07.08.2015 um 22:56 schrieb Philippe <philw...@gmail.com >> <mailto:philw...@gmail.com>>: >> >> Under Windows, use a runtime compacter such as https://bitsum.com/pecompact/ >> <https://bitsum.com/pecompact/> >> >> Philippe >> >> On Fri, 07 Aug 2015 13:31:55 +0000 >> Rafael Machado <rafaelrodrigues.mach...@gmail.com >> <mailto: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 <mailto:Interest@qt-project.org> >> http://lists.qt-project.org/mailman/listinfo/interest > > > _______________________________________________ > Interest mailing list > Interest@qt-project.org > http://lists.qt-project.org/mailman/listinfo/interest
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