2012/2/20 Anthony Liguori <anth...@codemonkey.ws>: > On 02/19/2012 08:24 PM, Brad Smith wrote: >> >> On 19/02/12 8:10 PM, Anthony Liguori wrote: >>>> >>>> If not, it will be nice to keep >>>> SDL because GTK huge and not that portable for win32 users. >>> >>> >>> Neither are true. GTK is a reasonably small dependency especially given >>> that GLIB is a mandatory dependency. I can't imagine that in terms of >>> binary size, libsdl is much bigger than gtk/gdk. >> >> >> Double check your facts. That's not even close to being true. >> >> SDL is a tiny fraction of Gtk+. >> >> Just as an example taking a look at package sizes.. >> >> 549KB for SDL vs 17.3MB for just Gtk+ and its dependencies (7 libraries) >> excluding Glib2 and what it depends on. > > > I don't see how 17.3MB qualifies as "huge".
You have to compare the SDL library with GTK and its dependencies. SDL is "small" while 32-times-bigger GTK libraries should qualify as "huge". > > Regards, > > Anthony Liguori > > > Glib2 and dependencies are 14.5MB >> >> (5 libraries). The two in total drag in 12 libraries at 31MBs. That's IMO >> a fair bit larger than QEMU itself at 25.9MB. >> >