On Montag, 5. November 2018 20:33:58 CET René J.V. Bertin wrote: > On Monday November 05 2018 12:03:31 René J.V. Bertin wrote: > >In my experience clang generates significantly more compact binaries > > Quite: bzipped tarballs of everything except the examples, translations, > QWE, QtWebView and Qt3D: > > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 363M Sep 8 13:22 > qt5-kde-devel-5.9.6.linux_3.x86_64.tbz2 (1003Mb uncompressed tarball) > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 199M Nov 5 19:22 > qt5-kde-devel-5.9.7.linux_3.x86_64.tbz2 (710Mb uncompressed tarball) > > The first built with GCC 8, the 2nd with clang 6.0; identical compiler > options (release build, -O3, force_debug_info for qtbase). > Enable -lto/ltcg if you want smaller binaries, and -optimize-size if you don't mind losing a bit a performance for it.
Also enable -separate-debug-info. The executable results of the two compilers are very identical in size, or is mainly the debug-info that varies so much in size. 'Allan _______________________________________________ Interest mailing list Interest@qt-project.org http://lists.qt-project.org/mailman/listinfo/interest
