[Qt-interest] possible to cut size of my final released package?

[Diego Schulz]

On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 2:22 AM, James Yan <jyan972 at gmail.com> wrote:

> for example:
> qtcore4.dll +  qtgui4.dll = 8MB or so, which is twice bigger for my current
> released package based on MFC. is there any method to make it slim?
>
>
> On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 10:16 AM, James Yan <jyan972 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> hi all,
>>
>> i'm using qt on win32, and i found these some qt must-have dll files are
>> not small, such as qtcore4.dll and qtgui4.dll, those dll make my final
>> released package much bigger than the one based on non-qt GUI lib before,
>> like MFC,etc.
>>
>> is there anyway to cut the size of my release? thanks.
>>
>
>
Have you tried stripping your final binaries? Are you building in release
mode (not debug) ?
Have you tried packing binaries with upx (http://upx.sourceforge.net/)  ?
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