[Development] QtSDK size difference between mingw and msvc version

[Laszlo Papp]

On Thu, Mar 28, 2013 at 6:05 PM, Thiago Macieira
<thiago.macieira at intel.com>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 DWARF4 and that should help.
>

Yes, exactly. I have just looked into the details a bit, yesterday:
http://dwarfstd.org/doc/DWARF4.pdf

Laszlo
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