[Development] Qt Static Package

[Mitch Curtis]

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> From: Development <development-bounces at qt-project.org> On Behalf Of
> Thiago Macieira
> Sent: Monday, 29 April 2019 5:18 PM
> To: development at qt-project.org
> Subject: Re: [Development] Qt Static Package
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> On Monday, 29 April 2019 00:27:14 PDT Mitch Curtis wrote:
> > -static -release -ltcg -opensource -confirm-license -nomake tests
> > -nomake examples -silent
> 
> -static -ltcg is most definitely not redistributable. That build is only usable in
> your exact machine, and only for so long as you don't perform a system
> update.

That's a pity. It shaved off 8 mb (19%) of my executable's size.	

Can you explain why it's not redistributable? I thought the whole point of link time code generation was for release builds?

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