Windows installation package size

[Gilles Caulier]

Hi Andrej,

This is a good question. Recently (one week ago) i rebuilt all the
VCPKG environnement used to build the installers from scratch.

I also fixed a serious problem with the OpenCL detection by OpenCV to
run the DNN on the GPU (faces workflow, autotags, quality, etc.). This
is required to install the "famous" NVIDIA SDKs on the Windows 10 VM.

At the end of the installer build, the digiKam scripts parse
recursively the dependencies, including now, the NVIDIA stuff of
course. So, I suspect that the NVIDIA SDKs are the source of the
problem.

Tips: install 8.6.0 and scan the installed files list/size. Do the
same with 8.7.0 and compare. You will quickly find a first response.

Best
Gilles Caulier

Le mar. 15 avr. 2025 à 09:33, Andrej Valencic
<andrej.valencic at zoho.com> a écrit :
>
> Hello,
>
> Just wondering why is the size of the latest pre-release version (8.7)
> for Windows so much bigger then the current release version (8.6) -
> 618MB versus 205MB?
> This is for the normal exe version of the installer not the debug one.
>
> Regards,
> Andrej