[Qt-interest] How to make exes work without dependencies

[Scott Aron Bloom]

If you use a statically bound lib, vs the shared, and you are only using
a small portion of the GUI libraries...  Your releases will be much much
smaller.

However, the more you use from the library, or if you have more than 1
app that you distribute, the overall size will be smaller with share.

Scott

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[mailto:qt-interest-bounces at trolltech.com] On Behalf Of Malyushytsky,
Alex
Sent: Monday, August 17, 2009 2:26 PM
To: qt-interest at trolltech.com
Subject: Re: [Qt-interest] How to make exes work without dependencies

As I already mentioned you should deploy only release version.
It means you don't need debug libraries.

Release version is smaller and total size of the executable + dlls will
not differ that much from the statically build executable size, if you
don't include in your project QT modules you don't need.

QtGui4.dll build on my QT 4.4.3 with MSVC 2005 is only 10 560 000,
QtGui4.dll (which you don't even need - BUILD RELEASE) is 15 443 458. I
have no idea how you get 104 mb.

Restrictions and limitations are mostly related to using plugins and
some QT modules will not be build.
Since I am not as good as QT documentation I will encourage you to look
there for more information about this topic.

Regards,
   Alex

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[mailto:qt-interest-bounces at trolltech.com] On Behalf Of rajasekharan
Sent: Saturday, August 15, 2009 1:48 AM
To: qt-interest at trolltech.com
Subject: Re: [Qt-interest] How to make exes work without dependencies

 > Instead you can deploy or make accessible on your computer QT
libraries and other dependencies. QT provides documentation how it can
be done: http://doc.trolltech.com/4.1/deployment-windows.html

That's the problem, even if the application is very small ~10mb, one has
to distribute a 104mb dll file for some modules (i think the Qt4GUId
itself is that big, not sure which one.

What are these restrictions on deploying a application statically that
you mentioend?

Kind Regards,
Raja Sekharan
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