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[Milan Horák <stranger@...>]

Phew,

so as non-programmer I'd rather stay with current state.

Thanks for answer.

Milan

Dick Hollenbeck napsal(a):
> Milan Horák wrote:
> > Hallo,
> >
> > is there any possibility to compile Kicad without wxWidgets statically 
> > compiled into exe files.
> >
> > What I mean is not to have 34 megabytes of exe files but i.e. 3 
> > megabytes plus one shared wxWidgets.dll.
> >
> > I tried it with WXUSINGDLL = 1 line in libs.win but no succes.
> > I tried it with wxWidgets compiles with --enable-shared=yes but no succes.
> >
> > Do you have any idea how to do it?
> >
> > Milan
> >
> >
> >   
>
> Check with the wxWidgets people. See any makefile examples that they 
> provide. Verify that they support it.
>
>
> But realize that a static link pulls in only those functions and classes 
> that are referenced. Whereas a DLL does not know who its clients will 
> be and is often built for the worse case and can be MUCH bigger than 
> what gets linked in statically. So the sum of the EXE linked to a DLL 
> plus the DLL will usually be larger in file size than the statically 
> linked EXE alone.
>
> Some of your answer lies hidden in the use of the wx-config command. It 
> may be helpful to start searching there, on the wxWidgets forums and 
> website, specifically for Windows.
>
>
> Also:
>
> http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Link-Options.html#Link-Options
>
>
> Dick
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