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by joezydeco 2613 days ago
I don't have an angry blog post about the size of cross-platform libraries.

Instead, I took the (longer) time to hand-tune Qt source and qconfig.h. My cross-platform desktop builds are under 2MB in a single executable, which appears to be something the OP wanted in the first place.
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ScottFree 2613 days ago
Oh, I think I misunderstood your original sentence. I thought you were saying there's an angry post that needs to be written about how to make a Qt app smaller by statically compiling the app and stripping the libraries. I was saying I would like to read the post detailing how.

But, now that I've thought about it for a few minutes, it does sound pretty straight forward. Unless Qt makes it difficult for some reason?

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joezydeco 2613 days ago
No, Qt doesn't make it difficult. We just live in a different era where it's more convenient to complain about frameworks than to dig in to the source/config files and modify them to suit your needs.

It's a Stack Overflow world, baby, we just live in it.

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