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

[Wojciech Mamrak]

Hi Werner,

may I ask about reasons of using static Qt libraries on windows? Or
maybe I have misunderstood you totally?

regards

2012/2/4 Werner LEMBERG <address@hidden>:
>
> Folks,
>
>
> it took me a whole week of intensive documentation reading and
> compilation experiments, asking on various mailing list, etc., etc.,
> to eventually find out that I need two binaries on Windows, one for
> the console and one for the GUI.  For consistency I've decided to
> create two binaries for all platform.
>
> Sigh.  It's simply not possible to make a Windows program behave the
> same way as a POSIX one.  I haven't believed it, now I know :-| Well,
> I'm an absolute beginner w.r.t. to Windows programming...
>
> After building from the current git there is now a `ttfautohint' and
> `ttfautohintGUI' binary.  It compiles nicely on Windows also; I've
> successfully used MinGW (but please check the `INSTALL.git' file for
> more details).  The only drawback of creating a static GUI binary on
> Windows is its size: Due to the Qt libraries it's about 8MByte
> (compared to 150kByte on GNU/Linux using Qt DLLs).
>
> I invite the adventurous user to compile and test!  If everything
> works fine, I'll release a new version in a few days.
>
>
>   Werner
>
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