[Qt-interest] Qt 4.5.1 huge : can I delete 'src' of 3.5Gb once compiled?

[Miguel Cardenas]

Last question (promise :)

I guess it is the same situation with Windows (the one of the problem), but
derived from your mail and Sean comment arise two doubts:

1. You mention the dependencies on the 'src' directory and Sean comments
that I can safely remove the *.obj files. By the afternoon I found a
document http://wiki.qtcentre.org/index.php?title=Qt4_with_Visual_Studiothat
says "If you didn't you can still delete
c:\qt\src if you want to free up some space." It is confusing to me, so I
deleted (backed up before) 'src' and recompiled successfully some of the
example and tutorial sources. Perhaps only good luck and required headers
did not use dependencies from 'src'.

2. According to the dependencies referenced to ..\..\src\..., are they to
the original .h/.cpp files only? or maybe also to some generated files at
compile time (under windows)? *If it is a dependency only on headers/sources
*, would it be safe to remove the 3.5Gb 'src' tree and replace it by the
~100Mb 'src' that comes with the sources before compilation?

Thanks for your comments and patience

On Sun, May 24, 2009 at 11:51 AM, Thiago Macieira <
thiago.macieira at trolltech.com> wrote:

> Miguel Cardenas wrote:
> >My question is if it is safe to delete 'src' since the library is
> > already compiled
>
> No, it's not.
>
> All the include headers are just forwarding headers into src. For example:
>
> $ cat include/QtCore/qobject.h
> #include "../../src/corelib/kernel/qobject.h"
>
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