Re: Size of Qt Dist

[Roland Knall <rknall () gmail com>]

You don't need the code only, just the distro for your dev-environment.

Code-only would only be needed, if you want to build your own version of
Qt. The binary only takes about 2GB.

cheers

On Wed, Nov 29, 2017 at 9:17 PM, Paul Offord <Paul.Offord () advance7 com>
wrote:

> When I went to install the new version of Qt, I chose the 5.9.3 code only
> and the installer said that it would require 36GB of disk space.  I thought
> this was just a mistake.  It took ages to download and sure enough –
> 35.8GB.  This dwarfs anything I have ever loaded onto my PC.  It’s a UI
> library for goodness sake.  What on earth takes all that space?
>
>
>
> Have I done something stupid?
>
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