[Qt-interest] win32-g++ compiled Qt app much bigger than win32-msvc compiled one?

[Thiago Macieira]

Nikolay Moskvichev wrote:
>> -rwxr-xr-x 1 user group 9542 2009-04-01 14:17 a.out
>
>I think, if you call ldd on your a.out, it show you something like:
>
>bash-2.05$ ldd a.out
>         libstdc++.so.3 => /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.3 (0x40025000)
>         libm.so.6 => /lib/libm.so.6 (0x400ca000)
>         libgcc_s.so.1 => /lib/libgcc_s.so.1 (0x400ec000)
>         libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0x400f6000)
>         /lib/ld-linux.so.2 => /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x40000000)

No, a Qt program wouldn't be that small (9.5k) unless it were linking 
dynamically to Qt. So the ldd output would be a bit longer.

But the comparison is still valid for one reason: you can expect Qt to be 
installed on a Linux system, whereas you can't make that assumption on 
Windows.

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Thiago Macieira - thiago.macieira (AT) nokia.com
  Senior Product Manager - Nokia, Qt Software
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