Re: Windows binaries for qgit 2.0

From: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
Date: Dec 16, 2007, 07:55 UTC
Message-ID: <e5bfff550712152355o7c8ef2f3j95f239697f77ccef@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <fk2juf$t25$1@ger.gmane.org>

On Dec 16, 2007 8:26 AM, Abdelrazak Younes <younes.a@free.fr> wrote:

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> Sorry for the intrusion in this list but you don't need to compile Qt
> statically IMO. Just bundle the Qt dlls that you needs (most probably
> QtCore and QtGui) with you executable and be done with it.
>

Yes. That's another option, I will try that to see if things get better.

>
> If you are using debug dlls, those are known to be slower  because of

Actually I use debug dll for normal development and never experienced slowness. I switched to "release" library to create the qgit package and _now_ I have the thing much slower and also misbehaving. So for me are the release library that have problems, not the debug ones.

> In any case, if you want to gain
> speed, you should compile with MSVC (MSVC2005Express is free as in beer).
>

Yes, I was thinking about this, but Qt don't officially supports MSVC for the Qt4 GPL libraries, so that's the reason I was stick to mingw (although now it comes more and more clear to me that the shipped version has problems with release compiled libraries)

> Hope this helps,
> Abdel.
>

Yes, thanks a lot. Marco