[Interest] Qt .dlls size reduction

[Bob Hood]

On 8/7/2015 8:49 AM, Philippe wrote:
> I sent you this link because I used this system successfully many years ago 
> (I have no relation ship to this company). Now I remember another system 
> (and free) that worked fine with me (and actually better in 64 bit at that 
> time): http://www.matcode.com/mpress.htm
> I see today that a Mac version is also available.

Well, I just tried this with my Windows application release build.  I was 
cringing a bit when I saw some of the reduction ratios it achieved as it was 
processing files, but I was fairly impressed with the results.  It even 
dropped a SWIG-generated Python binding dll that was >4MB to about 600KB, and 
it still worked!  It achieved some notable reductions in the Qt5 dll sizes as 
well (it complained that it may have damaged the Qt5Designer* dlls, but I 
don't use them in my application anyway).

I might considering integrating this into my build/release pipe.  Thanks for 
pointing this out, Philippe.  :)

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