Enormous dll size on Windows

[Gilles Caulier]

yes debug symbols still inside these dll, explicitly. I'm sure, i write the
scripts for that. All other dlls are cleaned of debug symbols.

Why to preserve these symbols ? To be able to get a debug backtrace to
investigate in case of crash..

Gilles Caulier

2017-11-04 20:38 GMT+01:00 Mica Semrick <mica at silentumbrella.com>:

> A debug version and including debug symbols aren't quite the same.
>
> And file size has nothing to do with speed.
>
> -m
>
>
> On November 4, 2017 12:36:31 PM PDT, Adam Skiba <skiba.adam at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> Its quite often that people are complaining about speed - would't it be
>> wise to expose 2 versions of program - one "speed" optimized and one
>> "debug" optimized?
>>
>> 2017-11-04 20:28 GMT+01:00 Mica Semrick <mica at silentumbrella.com>:
>>
>>> I believe on windows, including the debugging symbols makes the DLL size
>>> grow.
>>>
>>> -m
>>>
>>>
>>> On November 4, 2017 12:27:06 PM PDT, Adam Skiba <skiba.adam at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> What is inside of libdigikamcore.dll (400 Megabytes) and
>>>> in libdigikamgui.dll (300 Megabytes)
>>>>
>>>> Those sizes seems to be enormous and I might not be too much
>>>> experienced programmer but I cannot imagine what could be hidden there
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Pozdrawiam
>>>> Adam Skiba
>>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Pozdrawiam
>> Adam Skiba
>>
>
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