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 point below, remember that the actual MinGW is shipped inside the installer. That adds another 300 MB. > 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 DWARF4 and that should help. > 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 above number by about 1.4 GB. That's a mistake. The installed package should not have DLLs in the lib directory. I think Ossi has already pointed this out to the packaging team. -- Thiago Macieira - thiago.macieira (AT) intel.com Software Architect - Intel Open Source Technology Center
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