[Development] Qt Static Package

[Simon Hausmann]

The application is perfectly distributable, but the static libraries are tied to the exact compiler binary and therefore not so suitable for sending to other people. So it’s all good :)

Simon

On 29. Apr 2019, at 17:47, Mitch Curtis <mitch.curtis at qt.io> wrote:

>> -----Original Message-----
>> 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
>> 
>>> 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?
> 
>> --
>> Thiago Macieira - thiago.macieira (AT) intel.com
>>  Software Architect - Intel System Software Products
>> 
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