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Lightweight is relative. I ship ~20MB of Qt DLLs with my desktop application.

• Rochus 5y ago
  Well, you can statically link and just include the functions actually in use; here is an example of a Win32 Qt GUI application with only 6.8 MB: http://software.rochus-keller.ch/CrossLine_win32.zip http://software.rochus-keller.ch/CrossLine_win32.zip (just download, unzip and run; works also well with Wine)
  • ahartmetz 5y ago
    Interesting. Usually, statically linking Qt doesn't do much for disk usage because signals and slots cause symbols to be "theoretically reachable" because the linker can't know which strings you are going to pass to QObject::connect() at runtime. More technically, otherwise unused symbols are reachable through the meta-object data tables.
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    • hawski 5y ago
      Was there ever an effort to try removing those "theoretically reachable" objects? It sounds doable, but of course not trivial.
      • ahartmetz 5y ago
        I've been wondering, but I never heard of an effort to do that.