[Interest] Qt .dlls size reduction

Rafael Machado rafaelrodrigues.machado at gmail.com
Fri Aug 7 19:46:47 CEST 2015


Hi Everyone.
Thanks for all these information. It's being really helpfull!

Thiago Macieira or someone else
Could you please send me the link to the ICU tools you mentioned ? I tried
at the ICU website, but didn't find. Just find information on how to
compile the project.

Em sex, 7 de ago de 2015 às 13:25, Thiago Macieira <
thiago.macieira at intel.com> escreveu:

> On Saturday 08 August 2015 01:17:28 Gunnar Roth wrote:
> > > Am 08.08.2015 um 00:46 schrieb Thiago Macieira
> > > <thiago.macieira at intel.com>:
> > >
> > > On Friday 07 August 2015 09:48:34 Jérôme Godbout wrote:
> > >> Anyway you may want to take a look at the fat icudt5X.dll, this can
> > >> easily
> > >> be compressed with something like UPX http://upx.sourceforge.net/
> > >> This could save you some space. Another big one are QtWebKit
> (depending
> > >> on
> > >> the Qt version).
> > >
> > > Compressing icudt is trading off disk space for RAM+swap usage. It's a
> bad
> > > tradeoff. Do not compress it.
> > >
> > > If you need to shrink it, use ICU tools to recreate the database with
> > > fewer
> > > entries.
> >
> > Not using icu on windows at all seems to me the better option. Or what
> do I
> > lose?
>
> I never remember what you'd be losing. Probably some detailed timezone
> information, collation and codecs. If you run without it before Vista,
> you'll
> probably get no QTimeZone support at all.
>
> --
> Thiago Macieira - thiago.macieira (AT) intel.com
>   Software Architect - Intel Open Source Technology Center
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