On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 10:46 AM, Jeffrey Rennie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > John Reimer wrote: >> >> Hello Bill, >> >> >>> I think the build time of dwt apps is a much bigger issue right now >>> than the size of exes. The size of exes can be reduced using hacks >>> like upx, but there is no fix for the long build times as far as I >>> know. >>> >>> --bb >>> >> >> >> Totally agree. The size is just an annoyance. But currently the build >> times are pretty bad. Recently, I've been frustrating over this especially >> while working on the Browser port. Everytime I want to test a fix, I have >> to recompile... which takes ages. This seems to be partly due to the dsss >> dependency (recent version is sloooow). I've been thinking of adding some >> sort of shell script or "make" file to see if this can be improved... at >> least for sanities' sake. :-( >> >> -JJR >> >> > > Naturally, for some of us, .exe size is more important. Specifically, for > those of us building software that will be downloaded by users at home. > > But then again, I always build GUIs using native libraries--WTL on Win32 and > Objective-C on Mac--so I'm likely not a DWT customer anyway.
I'm pretty sure DWT uses the underlying native GUI APIs. At least it looked that way when I saw it demonstrated.
