Re: [Development] QtSDK size difference between mingw and msvc version

2013-04-02 Thread Sergio Ahumada
On 03/28/2013 07:05 PM, Thiago Macieira wrote: > On quinta-feira, 28 de março de 2013 18.31.50, Axel Waggershauser wrote: > >> Somewhat related is the question: why is is necessary to have all >> those (huge) dlls both in the bin and lib directory? Not having them >> duplicated would cut down the a

Re: [Development] QtSDK size difference between mingw and msvc version

2013-03-29 Thread Laszlo Papp
On Thu, Mar 28, 2013 at 6:05 PM, Thiago Macieira wrote: > > It obviously boils down to the question why especially the debug dlls > > are so much bigger (like Qt5Guid.dll: 131MB vs 5MB). > > Debugging symbols are much bigger and extremely space-inefficient with > DWARF2. > GCC is switching to DWAR

Re: [Development] QtSDK size difference between mingw and msvc version

2013-03-28 Thread Thiago Macieira
On quinta-feira, 28 de março de 2013 18.31.50, Axel Waggershauser wrote: > Hi, > > sorry if this is a boring/stupid/old question (I have not found any > related discussion): Why is the installed mingw version of the (5.0.1) > SDK more than 3 times the size (>3.5GB) of the msvc version? Besides the

[Development] QtSDK size difference between mingw and msvc version

2013-03-28 Thread Axel Waggershauser
Hi, sorry if this is a boring/stupid/old question (I have not found any related discussion): Why is the installed mingw version of the (5.0.1) SDK more than 3 times the size (>3.5GB) of the msvc version? It obviously boils down to the question why especially the debug dlls are so much bigger (lik