GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 621328
Windows installer Improvements
Last modified: 2018-05-22 13:37:36 UTC
This report is intended as a collection of the Windows installers improvement requests. See the reports marked as duplicates of this report for details.
*** Bug 609244 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** Bug 609241 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** Bug 609239 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** Bug 609236 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Well, I'm not acually reporting a bug, but a probably unintended feature of the current Windows versions ... I was puzzled when I upgraded from, I think, 1.10.5, to newer releases, including gnumeric-1.10.11-20101002, that the installation size has grown so much. Now I started Cygwin and tried the following commands: $ du -s /cygdrive/c/Programme/Gnumeric/1.10.11 222605 /cygdrive/c/Programme/Gnumeric/1.10.11 $ find /cygdrive/c/Programme/Gnumeric/1.10.11 -name '*.dll' -exec strip {} \; $ find /cygdrive/c/Programme/Gnumeric/1.10.11 -name '*.exe' -exec strip {} \; $ du -s /cygdrive/c/Programme/Gnumeric/1.10.11 49966 /cygdrive/c/Programme/Gnumeric/1.10.11 So, obviously the default installer now gives me a debug version. Is this what you intended? May I ask you to provide a non-debug version for "normal" users? However, thank you very much for your work on Gnumeric for Windows, it is a very useful program, I use it every day for my calculations, and never encountered an actual bug!
> So, obviously the default installer now gives me a debug version. > Is this what you intended? Certainly not intended. After you strip the files like that, will it still run? We clearly need some level of symbols in the files in order for dynamic linking to work. Gnumeric 1.9.16 was 19M; we're now at ~17M. The installer does not appear to have increased in size. (With the exception of the versions that had python in them.)
> After you strip the files like that, will it still run? Well you are right, after stripping off all symbols gnumeric would not run anymore, and I had to re-install it. By the way, I also tried the same (destructive) operation with the 1.10.5 Version which I still had kept, and it shrunk from ca 80M to 60M. So this seems to be the approximate level of symbols that is actually needed for linking.
*** Bug 644006 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Installer puts shortcuts for app, help and uninstall raw in programs menu. Unacceptable.
Gnumeric 1.10.16 works well after stripping
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