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He jokingly mentions Qt in the caption of the final picture.

I guess since he excludes GTK2 at the beginning for size concerns, wxWidgets and Qt would fall into the same category.

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> He jokingly mentions Qt in the caption of the final picture.

well, he can keep joking and I can keep shipping Qt apps and everyone's happy

Except your users, they end up with your MBs.

I ship a Qt app. The installer is 135MB. 90MB of that is a demo video that comes with it. Nobody has ever complained.

yes, those poor users who end up with 70 megabytes to download, for something that comes with a large part of Qt, LLVM, libclang, multiple programming language implementation, support for plenty of network protocols... And I haven't even optimized what's inside the release package. ( https://github.com/OSSIA/score/releases)

Making a Qt app smaller would mean statically compiling the app and stripping the libraries but, hey, there’s an angry blog post that needs to get written.

Can you link us to your blog? I'd like to read that angry post if and/or when you post it.

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.

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?

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.

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