Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 6/6] gtk: make default UI

[Brad Smith]

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. 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.

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