[Buildroot] Putting qtwebkit on a diet

Thomas Petazzoni thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com
Thu Nov 30 08:02:30 UTC 2017


Hello,

On Thu, 30 Nov 2017 01:49:28 +0200, Stefan Fröberg wrote:
> Update: I just tried it and the results are these:
> 
> Stock, uclibc qt5webkit size on target:
> 32MB
> 
> Modified uclibc qt5webkit build with "minimal" and
> "use_cross_platform_context_menus" (needed for successfull build)
> settings, size on target:
> 22 MB
> 
> So it would save about 10 MB

I think that's an interesting space saving (and perhaps build time
saving as well ?). So yes, you can go ahead and submit patches to
implement more fine-grained configuration for qt5webkit :-)

Thanks!

Thomas
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Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Free Electrons
Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering
http://free-electrons.com



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