Ok, I was just curious why are you "complaining" on size of the binary under Windows while it is possible to reduce it by choosing other linking method.
2012/2/4 Werner LEMBERG <[email protected]>: > >> may I ask about reasons of using static Qt libraries on windows? Or >> maybe I have misunderstood you totally? > > The only reason is to make the distribution of the binaries easier. > Actually, I don't see much difference in having a smaller > `ttfautohintGUI.exe' which must be then distributed with `qtcore4.dll' > and `qtgui4.dll'. Due to the lack of a standard packaging system on > Windows, I have to always provide the Qt libraries, either statically > linked into the application or these two DLLs. > > Note that there is some code which could be shared between ttfautohint > and ttfautohintGUI: the MinGW runtime and the FreeType library. > However, since I need FreeType 2.4.5 or newer which is not distributed > everywhere by default (in particular I got problem reports from Macs) > I think it's better to have them statically linked also. > > > Werner _______________________________________________ Freetype mailing list [email protected] https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/freetype
