[PyQt] How to slim programs under windows

[mezgani ali]

On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 3:47 PM, Darryl Wallace <darryl.wallace at prosensus.ca
> wrote:

> Hello,
>
>>
>> I build a exe program with py2exe, and it size is about 8M.
>> The program is very simple, it's a widget that contain  too lineedit and a
>> button, it's based on pyqt.
>> Please is there a way to resize the file for small one.
>>
> My experience has been that if it is a gui-based PyQt program, you need to
> package the python runtime (python2x.dll), the python PyQt libraries
> (Qt.pyd, QtCore.pyd, QtGui.pyd) and the Qt dll's (QtCore4.dll, QtGui4.dll).
>  You may also need to distribute the C-runtime library (mingwm10.dll or
> msvcrXX.dll) depending on how your application was setup.   All of these
> need to be included because you can't assume the end user will have them on
> their system.
>
Yes, that is.
However, the only way i found and it was a suggestion from the py2exe
mailing list,
is the use of  "options = { "py2exe": {"compressed": 2}}" in my setup.py.
That does not include the dll, PyQt libraries and python runtime in the
executable file, giving a chance to install there libraries separately.

>
> Even with your small widget developed in C++ you still need to distribute
> the Qt dll's since these are not standard windows libraries.
>
> My conclusion: it's not possible to make your apps have super small
> download size with Qt and PyQt.
>
> If anyone has other experiences with this please share them.
>
Thanks Darry for you reply.

>
> Darryl
>



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