QT compiled size

[Chris Gehlker]

On Nov 29, 2007, at 9:07 AM, Nathan Aubrey wrote:

> Only 6.9 MB ? I think OS X is only using a very small section of  
> anything QT.
> A few hundred megs I would expect, but not close to a gig. I'm just  
> wondering
> if I missed a step somewhere to disable all debugging.
> I have not stripped any symbols either, as I'm generally leary of  
> doing that.

Aha, you could very well be right. The OS X version runs atop Quartz  
analogously to the way the Linux version runs atop X11. But if I  
understand  correctly, the Linux version has a built  in window  
manager while the OS X version is relying on the Quartz window  
manager. So it's probably just a shim to assure that Ruby and Python  
programs are portable.
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