RE: [Mingw-users] Qt-DLL size - gcc compared to msvc

[Heiko G. <hg...@te...>]

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> From: min...@li...
> [mailto:min...@li...]On Behalf Of Oscar
> Fuentes
> Sent: Thursday, October 10, 2002 1:13 AM
> To: min...@li...; hg...@te...
> Subject: Re: [Mingw-users] Qt-DLL size - gcc compared to msvc
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>
> "Heiko Gerdau" <hg...@te...> writes:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > when I build the Qt3*-DLL with the current mingw distribution
> > including gcc3.2 the result is quit a large DLL. Large at least
> > compared to what one gets using the Microsoft compiler vc++
> > 6.o. It's a factor of 2.5 (5 MByte).  This difference is so big that
> > I assume a mistake involved. Maybe someone on this list can bring
> > some light into the issue.
>
> Try
>
> strip -s Qt.dll

Thanks for your suggestion but it has no effect (and shouldn't since I use
the -s linker option).

I actually tried that before cause I found a post in the list archive
telling that strip.exe and using the -s linker option seem to have different
effects. But at least for me they do the same.

Heiko