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

[Anthony Liguori]

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".

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.