Re: shrink GTK+ disk usage for Windows

[Andrew Ziem <ahz001 gmail com>]

On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 11:07 PM, Michael Torrie <torriem gmail com> wrote:
> Andrew Ziem wrote:
>> How can I shrink GTK+ binaries?
>>
>> I develop a simple, cross-platform PyGTK app (BleachBit) and include
>> GTK+ 2.16 binaries in my Windows installer.  Compared to my app itself
>> and the Python runtime, GTK+ is huge.  GTK 2.18 fixes a Windows 7 menu
>> painting bug, but I am considering staying on 2.16 because it keeps my
>> installer 400KB smaller.
>
> What is your target size?  How big is too big?

As small as possible without a giant effort?  :)   One problem is
BleachBit is an application designed to remove files to free disk
space, and so it is ironic on Windows its footprint is much bigger
compared to similar Windows applications that don't use GTK+.
"Success" would be the minimize the difference.  A similar
application's installer 1-3MB (depending on which installer is
chosen).


Best regards,
Andrew