Re: [ft] ttfautohint: separate GUI and console binaries

[Wojciech Mamrak]

Ok, I was just curious why are you "complaining" on size of the binary
under Windows while it is possible to reduce it by choosing other
linking method.

2012/2/4 Werner LEMBERG <address@hidden>:
>
>> may I ask about reasons of using static Qt libraries on windows?  Or
>> maybe I have misunderstood you totally?
>
> The only reason is to make the distribution of the binaries easier.
> Actually, I don't see much difference in having a smaller
> `ttfautohintGUI.exe' which must be then distributed with `qtcore4.dll'
> and `qtgui4.dll'.  Due to the lack of a standard packaging system on
> Windows, I have to always provide the Qt libraries, either statically
> linked into the application or these two DLLs.
>
> Note that there is some code which could be shared between ttfautohint
> and ttfautohintGUI: the MinGW runtime and the FreeType library.
> However, since I need FreeType 2.4.5 or newer which is not distributed
> everywhere by default (in particular I got problem reports from Macs)
> I think it's better to have them statically linked also.
>
>
>    Werner