[Development] Qt 5.4 Mingw-4.9.1 offline package

[Cristian Adam]

On Mon, Jan 5, 2015 at 11:13 AM, Cristian Adam <cristian.adam at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I've installed Qt 5.4 Mingw-4.9.1
> (qt-opensource-windows-x86-mingw491_opengl-5.4.0.exe)
> and I've noticed that the Qt Creator bundled with it was compiled with
> MSVC 2010 and had its
> own version of Qt 5.4 MSVC 2010 DLLs (~100MB)
>
> What is the reason for this?
>
> Is Mingw-GCC 4.9.1 that bad, that a MSVC 2010 build of Qt Creator was
> needed?
>
> qt-opensource-windows-x86-msvc2013_opengl-5.4.0.exe - 694MB
> qt-opensource-windows-x86-mingw491_opengl-5.4.0.exe - 852MB
>
> Mingw-GCC is known to produce bigger binaries, but there is no reason to
> bloat the
> installer, right?
>
>
Hmm, the same happened with
qt-opensource-windows-x86-msvc2013_opengl-5.4.0.exe.

I think Qt Creator was build once for Windows and included in all
installers.

>From my point of view Qt Creator should have been build with the same Qt
version that
was installed, reusing the Qt shared libraries, minimizing disk space and
bandwidth...

Cheers,
Cristian.
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