exe file size

[Jarrett Billingsley]

On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 10:46 AM, Jeffrey Rennie <surferjeff at excite.com> wrote:
> John Reimer wrote:
>>
>> Hello Bill,
>>
>>
>>> I think the build time of dwt apps is a much bigger issue right now
>>> than the size of exes.  The size of exes can be reduced using hacks
>>> like upx, but there is no fix for the long build times as far as I
>>> know.
>>>
>>> --bb
>>>
>>
>>
>> Totally agree.  The size is just an annoyance.  But currently the build
>> times are pretty bad.  Recently, I've been frustrating over this especially
>> while working on the Browser port.  Everytime I want to test a fix, I have
>> to recompile... which takes ages.  This seems to be partly due to the dsss
>> dependency (recent version is sloooow).  I've been thinking of adding some
>> sort of shell script or "make" file to see if this can be improved... at
>> least for sanities' sake. :-(
>>
>> -JJR
>>
>>
>
> Naturally, for some of us, .exe size is more important.  Specifically, for
> those of us building software that will be downloaded by users at home.
>
> But then again, I always build GUIs using native libraries--WTL on Win32 and
> Objective-C on Mac--so I'm likely not a DWT customer anyway.

I'm pretty sure DWT uses the underlying native GUI APIs.  At least it
looked that way when I saw it demonstrated.