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Title: Why my own compiled wallets are so big in size? Post by: embicoin on February 27, 2014, 04:45:43 AM Hello!
My computer is running Windows 8.1 64 bits. I recently have compiled several wallets for also several coins, I tried with different versions for the deps and also QT4 and QT5. In all scenarios the results involve my computer releasing a large executable file, with an average size of 20 MB. I have seen binary releases of BTC and other alt-coins with averages of 7-8 MB, so my question is: 1. Is it possible to reduce the output QT-wallet executable? Also I seen that when I run in it standalone my computer it does not ask for dll, but when I move the exe to another computer with Windows 7 x64 I need to pack it with the several .dll libraries, Qt4gui and so... 2. Is there any way to pack the libraries in the exe? Thanks in advance ;) Title: Re: Why my own compiled wallets are so big in size? Post by: cp1 on February 27, 2014, 04:58:10 AM Have you tried strip?
Title: Re: Why my own compiled wallets are so big in size? Post by: embicoin on February 27, 2014, 05:10:27 AM Have you tried strip? Yes, I tried it with no changes at all... BTW I am talking about QT Wallet. Title: Re: Why my own compiled wallets are so big in size? Post by: embicoin on February 27, 2014, 11:55:52 AM Still no answers :(
FYI: When I zip the client it goes from 22 MB to 7MB, so it seems to be lot of redundant - garbage data there... Also is important for me to know is there is the possibility of packing .dll libraries inside the exe... Title: Re: Why my own compiled wallets are so big in size? Post by: embicoin on February 27, 2014, 06:55:06 PM Bump ! Nobody has experimented the same problem?
Title: Re: Why my own compiled wallets are so big in size? Post by: embicoin on February 28, 2014, 04:01:23 AM Please I am stuck with this issue :(
Last walled I compiled was auroracoin windows qt. The precompiled exe: 8.16MB My own compiled exe: 18.4MB The functionality seems to be exactly the same. Where is the problem? Title: Re: Why my own compiled wallets are so big in size? Post by: kjj on February 28, 2014, 06:10:52 AM Are you sure you stripped the binary?
Title: Re: Why my own compiled wallets are so big in size? Post by: embicoin on March 01, 2014, 07:32:25 PM Are you sure you stripped the binary? cmd -> cd bitcoin-source/release strip bitcoin-qt.exe The output is nothing. The size stays the same... Am I missing anything? Title: Re: Why my own compiled wallets are so big in size? Post by: kjj on March 01, 2014, 07:57:12 PM It sounds like the strip utility you are running doesn't understand windows binaries. Maybe find one that does?
Title: Re: Why my own compiled wallets are so big in size? Post by: embicoin on March 02, 2014, 10:17:55 AM It sounds like the strip utility you are running doesn't understand windows binaries. Maybe find one that does? ->I used the strip that comes with mingw32, dependant on zlib1.dll (the latest from mingw32-get repository), its size is 7.99MB ->Also tried with 2 another strip versions, mingw32-4.8 dwarf build and mingw32-4.6 i686 build... (887KB and 902KB size) ->Also tried mingw32-strip.exe but no luck. Still waiting for a constructive answer. Anyway thanks for trying kjj ;) Code: C:\bitcoin\release>strip -v bitcoin-qt.exe |