Windows installation package size

Tue Apr 15 17:42:39 BST 2025

Hi,

This is the list of dll file sizes from the NVIDIA sdks on the Windows 10 VM :

CUDA-DNN :

./CUDNN/v9.8/bin/11.8:
total 611M
drwxr-xr-x 1 gilles 197121    0 Apr  9 18:15 ./
drwxr-xr-x 1 gilles 197121    0 Apr  9 18:15 ../
-rwxr-xr-x 1 gilles 197121 261K Feb 28 06:09 cudnn64_9.dll*
     <========
-rwxr-xr-x 1 gilles 197121 162M Feb 28 06:09 cudnn_adv64_9.dll*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 gilles 197121 3.8M Feb 28 06:09 cudnn_cnn64_9.dll*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 gilles 197121 302M Feb 28 06:09 cudnn_engines_precompiled64_9.dll*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 gilles 197121  23M Feb 28 06:09
cudnn_engines_runtime_compiled64_9.dll*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 gilles 197121 2.1M Feb 28 06:09 cudnn_graph64_9.dll*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 gilles 197121  54M Feb 28 06:09 cudnn_heuristic64_9.dll*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 gilles 197121  66M Feb 28 06:09 cudnn_ops64_9.dll*

./CUDNN/v9.8/bin/12.8:
total 961M
drwxr-xr-x 1 gilles 197121    0 Apr  9 18:15 ./
drwxr-xr-x 1 gilles 197121    0 Apr  9 18:15 ../
-rwxr-xr-x 1 gilles 197121 260K Feb 28 06:03 cudnn64_9.dll*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 gilles 197121 242M Feb 28 06:03 cudnn_adv64_9.dll*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 gilles 197121 4.1M Feb 28 06:03 cudnn_cnn64_9.dll*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 gilles 197121 524M Feb 28 06:03 cudnn_engines_precompiled64_9.dll*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 gilles 197121  25M Feb 28 06:03
cudnn_engines_runtime_compiled64_9.dll*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 gilles 197121 2.2M Feb 28 06:03 cudnn_graph64_9.dll*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 gilles 197121  54M Feb 28 06:04 cudnn_heuristic64_9.dll*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 gilles 197121 112M Feb 28 06:04 cudnn_ops64_9.dll*

CUDA :

gilles at Win10 MINGW64 /c/Program Files/NVIDIA GPU Computing Toolkit
$ ls -alRh | grep dll
-rwxr-xr-x 1 gilles 197121 109M Feb 26 08:51 cublas64_12.dll*
            <=======
-rwxr-xr-x 1 gilles 197121 644M Feb 26 08:51 cublasLt64_12.dll*
           <=======
-rwxr-xr-x 1 gilles 197121 561K Feb 13 12:30 cudart64_12.dll*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 gilles 197121 264M Mar  4 00:15 cufft64_11.dll*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 gilles 197121 160K Mar  4 00:15 cufftw64_11.dll*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 gilles 197121 1.5M Feb 13 12:34 cuinj64_128.dll*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 gilles 197121  69M Feb 13 12:48 curand64_10.dll*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 gilles 197121 216M Feb 13 15:12 cusolver64_11.dll*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 gilles 197121 150M Feb 13 15:12 cusolverMg64_11.dll*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 gilles 197121 362M Feb 26 09:17 cusparse64_12.dll*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 gilles 197121 288K Feb 13 13:16 nppc64_12.dll*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 gilles 197121  20M Feb 13 13:16 nppial64_12.dll*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 gilles 197121 7.6M Feb 13 13:16 nppicc64_12.dll*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 gilles 197121  12M Feb 13 13:16 nppidei64_12.dll*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 gilles 197121 121M Feb 13 13:16 nppif64_12.dll*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 gilles 197121  52M Feb 13 13:16 nppig64_12.dll*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 gilles 197121  12M Feb 13 13:16 nppim64_12.dll*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 gilles 197121  47M Feb 13 13:16 nppist64_12.dll*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 gilles 197121 382K Feb 13 13:16 nppisu64_12.dll*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 gilles 197121 5.1M Feb 13 13:16 nppitc64_12.dll*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 gilles 197121  16M Feb 13 13:16 npps64_12.dll*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 gilles 197121  75M Feb 22 06:17 nvJitLink_120_0.dll*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 gilles 197121 328K Feb 26 08:51 nvblas64_12.dll*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 gilles 197121 830K Feb 13 12:35 nvfatbin_120_0.dll*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 gilles 197121 5.9M Feb 13 12:46 nvjpeg64_12.dll*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 gilles 197121 6.1M Feb 22 06:13 nvrtc-builtins64_128.dll*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 gilles 197121  83M Feb 22 06:13 nvrtc64_120_0.alt.dll*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 gilles 197121  83M Feb 22 06:13 nvrtc64_120_0.dll*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 gilles 197121 1.1M Feb 22 05:40 InterceptorInjectionTarget.dll*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 gilles 197121 1.6M Feb 22 05:40 TreeLauncherTargetInjection.dll*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 gilles 197121 7.0M Feb 22 05:40 sanitizer-collection.dll*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 gilles 197121 1.1M Feb 22 05:40 sanitizer-public.dll*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 gilles 197121 900K Feb 22 05:40 InterceptorInjectionTarget.dll*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 gilles 197121 1.4M Feb 22 05:40 TreeLauncherTargetInjection.dll*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 gilles 197121 455K Feb 13 11:45 checkpoint.dll*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 gilles 197121 4.3M Feb 13 11:45 cupti64_2025.1.1.dll*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 gilles 197121  21M Feb 13 11:45 nvperf_host.dll*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 gilles 197121 2.7M Feb 13 11:45 nvperf_target.dll*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 gilles 197121  65K Feb 13 11:45 pcsamplingutil.dll*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 gilles 197121 304K Feb 13 16:01 freeglut.dll*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 gilles 197121 224K Feb 13 16:01 glew64.dll*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 gilles 197121 260K Feb 13 11:17 Nvda.Build.CudaTasks.v12.8.dll*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 gilles 197121  56K Feb 22 07:04 eclipse_1603.dll*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 gilles 197121 51M Feb 22 06:18 nvvm64_40_0.dll*

As you can see, there are 2 CUDA-DNN sdk versions (11.8 and 12.8).
annotated the 3 files required at run time and embedded in the Windows
installer.

With objdump, there is no information about symbols (stripped or not).

Gilles

Le mar. 15 avr. 2025 à 11:38, Gilles Caulier
<caulier.gilles at gmail.com> a écrit :
>
> 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