[QGIS-Developer] Exe size mismatch

Régis Haubourg regis.haubourg at gmail.com
Mon May 4 05:22:37 PDT 2020


Hi,
qgis.exe and qgis-bin.exe are not the same beasts. Qgis.exe is a wrapper
for the real exe file, passing additional .var values to the exe.
IIRC it was done by Nathan to allow QGIS to be pinned in Windows taskbar
correctly.

Please correct me if I am wrong

Le lun. 4 mai 2020 à 14:12, Sachin Kumar <surveykshak at gmail.com> a écrit :

> I have compiled on MSVC 2015, Windows 10. Till compile and install as in
> C:/OSGeo4w/apps/qgis-test and run successful from cmd prompt.
>
> When I tried to package it using perl creatensis.pl, it gives error
> qgis_app.dll
>
> Error loading QGIS
> Oops, looks like an error loading QGIS
> Details:
> Could not load qgis_app.dll
> Windows Error: The specified module could not be found.
> Help:
> Check C:\Program Files\QGIS 3.12\bin\qgis-bin.env for correct environment
> paths
>
> What could be wrong?
>
> Regards
> Sachin
>
> On Mon 4 May, 2020, 3:21 PM Andreas Neumann, <a.neumann at carto.net> wrote:
>
>> Hi Sachin,
>>
>> You probably used different compile options and then it would be logical
>> to me that the size of the exe is slightly different.
>>
>> Why do you worry?
>>
>> Andreas
>> Am 04.05.20 um 11:48 schrieb Sachin Kumar:
>>
>> Hi, I am compiling QGIS 3.12 successfully. It is notice that my qgis.exe
>> size 196KB where as when I installed QGIS 3.12 x64, its qgis-bin.exe size
>> is 111KB.
>>
>> Any reason?
>>
>> Regards
>> Sachin
>>
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