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Support for TrueType (.ttf) font files with Simple Directmedia Layer.
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Prebuilt MinGW development library files very large compared to MSVC #355

Closed martinstarkov closed 2 months ago

martinstarkov commented 2 months ago

When I downloaded the development library files for MinGW I noticed that the file sizes are pretty large:

x86_64-w64-mingw32\bin\SDL2_ttf.dll ~66 MB x86_64-w64-mingw32\lib\libSDL2_ttf.a ~78 MB

Whereas for MSVC, they are significantly smaller: SDL2_ttf-2.22.0\lib\x86\SDL2_ttf.dll ~800 KB SDL2_ttf-2.22.0\lib\x86\SDL2_ttf.lib ~12 KB

As I understand it, the MSVC libs do not allow for static linking. However, when I build the MSVC libraries from source to have static linking, I still get: SDL2_ttf-2.22.0\lib\x64\SDL2_ttf.lib ~127 KB (And the static freetype.lib is only ~1.8 MB)

Why is there such a dramatic difference in file size for the MinGW library files? (this might not be an issue so apologies if not, I just figured someone here might know the answer).

slouken commented 2 months ago

The MinGW files contain debug symbols and the MSVC libs are stripped.

martinstarkov commented 2 months ago

Thanks!