Size of libs

[Tyler Mandry]

Qt isn't known for being a small library. However the size of the libs is drastically reduced if you strip them (run arm-linux-androideabi-strip from the NDK on all the .so files.) For my debug build of Qt, this reduced the size of all the shared libraries from 235MB to 31MB. I'm not quite sure why this isn't done already when distributing local Qt libs to the device. If you do this in the install directory, you'll still have the original libraries with debugging symbols intact in the build directory.

> Date: Sun, 09 Oct 2011 09:17:33 +0300
> From: Lauri Laanmets <lauri.laanmets at proekspert.ee>
> To: necessitas-devel at kde.org
> Subject: Size of libs
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> Hi
> 
> Just a short question, is that normal for Qt libs to be so big. Over 200 
> MB altogether?
> 
> I wanted to try my QML app on an older HTC Hero and failed to do so 
> becasue /data/local is in phone's memory (512 MB ROM) and that is quite 
> full already.
> 
> Regards
> Lauri