[Interest] Very large QRC file

[Jason H]

Not sure. This is an app for a tablet, I've always packaged assets in qrc, because it "just worked". I could try DISTFILES, but I'm unsure how that work on mobile platforms.


> Sent: Wednesday, March 23, 2016 at 11:41 AM
> From: "Gian Maxera" <gmaxera at gmail.com>
> To: "Jason H" <jhihn at gmx.com>
> Cc: "interest at qt-project.org Interest" <interest at qt-project.org>
> Subject: Re: [Interest] Very large QRC file
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> My absolute rule is Never Never put big files into qrc file.
> Can you avoid it too ?
> 
> > On 23 Mar 2016, at 15:39, Jason H <jhihn at gmx.com> wrote:
> > 
> > I have a qrc devoted to media: audio and video. It's only about 100 megs total of both (2 videos and several languages for each). It results in about a 500MB cpp file. It takes 8 gigs to compile, which is what my hardware ram is, so I spend a lot of time swapping.
> > 
> > Everytime I compile it takes 10 minutes to compile the assets.qrc, even though it doesn't change. Is there a way that I can get the build system to be more intelligent about building it? 
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