From what I understand and have read, the debug version of the executable file produced by Creator contain a whole lot more debugging information and that's why they're bigger (and presumably slower).
I would have expected to be able to go into the Project tab of creator, choose Release from the little drop down box and recompile to produce a smaller executable. Indeed on one of the Windows-only projects I have, I could see a smaller .exe file in the release directory, when I tried running it, it gave me a weird error about entry points, so I thought I'd clean it and try again. Clean didn't clear the release directory's contents, so I tried deleting all and recompiling, but I just can't get it to make me a .exe in the release folder at all. Switching back to Debug in the drop down box gives me a .exe in its directory. Using Linux on a different project I can change between Debug and Release in the drop down box and create slightly different sized executables in the same projectname-build-desktop/ directory, but clean does not delete anything, I have to use Dolphin to delete the files and then it produces new files. We're only talking a few k difference though. Can anyone advise me on this in relatively simple terms please? I found a document called creator-build-settings on the qt.nokia site and that seems to suggest I have basically understood, but I must be missing something fundamental here in my understanding of how this all works because It's just not behaving as I'd expect! Thanks! _______________________________________________ Qt-creator mailing list [email protected] http://lists.qt.nokia.com/mailman/listinfo/qt-creator
