[Interest] Very large QRC file

[Scott Aron Bloom]

-----Original Message-----
From: Interest [mailto:interest-bounces+scott=towel42.com at qt-project.org] On Behalf Of Jason H
Sent: Wednesday, March 23, 2016 2:41 PM
To: Thiago Macieira
Cc: interest at qt-project.org
Subject: Re: [Interest] Very large QRC file

> Sent: Wednesday, March 23, 2016 at 4:23 PM
> From: "Thiago Macieira" <thiago.macieira at intel.com>
> To: interest at qt-project.org
> Subject: Re: [Interest] Very large QRC file
>
> On quarta-feira, 23 de março de 2016 16:39:02 EDT Jason H 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?
> 
> CONFIG += resources_big


 Nice. Since 5.4. Never knew. "Just works". Thanks!
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What does this flag do?  Is there an equivalent flag for CMake???

Scott