[Interest] Qt .dlls size reduction

[Rafael Machado]

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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