Windows installation package size

[Maik Qualmann]

Hi Gilles, The cublas64_12.dll file belonging to NVIDIA CUDA is over 600MB
in digiKam. I found it online at just under 100MB. Is it possible that it
still has its debug symbols?

Maik

Am Di., 15. Apr. 2025 um 09:58 Uhr schrieb Gilles Caulier <
caulier.gilles at gmail.com>:

> 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
>
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