Re:Ask HN: Which parts of C++ do I need to learn in order to...
by bakery2k on Sunday July 31, 2016 @01:27AM
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I considered using one of these libraries and writing the Qt GUI for my application in Python rather than C++.
However, I would like to build the application into a standalone binary for end-users to run on their own systems. This seems to be difficult with Python, and when I was able to build such a binary (using PyInstaller on Windows) it was large and slow to start-up.
(Qt itself is ~10MB (QtCore4.dll + QtGui4.dll) and (when using C++) can be made smaller by static linking, but PyQt doubles the size (python27.dll + PyQt4.QtCore.pyd + PyQt4.QtGui.pyd).)
However, I would like to build the application into a standalone binary for end-users to run on their own systems. This seems to be difficult with Python, and when I was able to build such a binary (using PyInstaller on Windows) it was large and slow to start-up.
(Qt itself is ~10MB (QtCore4.dll + QtGui4.dll) and (when using C++) can be made smaller by static linking, but PyQt doubles the size (python27.dll + PyQt4.QtCore.pyd + PyQt4.QtGui.pyd).)