Windows installation package size

[Gilles Caulier]

Hi Maik,

Yes, it's probably a debug version embedded in the installer. I will
double check asap.

Best

Gilles

Le mar. 15 avr. 2025 à 10:48, Maik Qualmann <metzpinguin at gmail.com> a écrit :
>
> 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