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milleniumbug / NativeFileDialogSharp

Cross-platform native file dialogs for C#
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Why are .lib, .exp and .pdb included? #4

Closed BoyBaykiller closed 6 months ago

BoyBaykiller commented 6 months ago

For windows, this project copies .lib, .exp and .pdb files of the native file dialog into the output directory of the host project. Why is this done? I am pretty sure only the dll is needed in this case.

milleniumbug commented 6 months ago

It's been a while, but I don't think there's a specific reason why they're included, it was most likely me copying what was generated from the build of the native project and not deciding to exclude unnecessary parts.

Looking at it once more, I estimate that .lib, .exp are definitely not necessary, though I am not sure if .pdb is, it's debug symbols for the native library.

BoyBaykiller commented 6 months ago

Alright. Is there any chance we could exclude those files and update the nuget package? In case you want to include debug symbols: I've never done that but I found out about <DebugType>embedded</DebugType>and symbol package which might be of interest, but tbh I think its fine to not include them. I dont see any of the other bindings I use doing it.