worksofcraft
December 20th, 2010, 03:17 PM
if you are using gtk and glade you can embed the XML glade file directly as a binary object in your executable using the ld command.
This is cool because you don't have to ship and install glade files with your app, but I discovered that even quite a simple one is adding like 17k to my executable memory footprint.
I wonder if anyone has an opinion what is better, embedding your gui definition in the executable, installing it as a separate file somewhere, or coding the widgets explicitly and not using glade at all... or something completely different?
This is cool because you don't have to ship and install glade files with your app, but I discovered that even quite a simple one is adding like 17k to my executable memory footprint.
I wonder if anyone has an opinion what is better, embedding your gui definition in the executable, installing it as a separate file somewhere, or coding the widgets explicitly and not using glade at all... or something completely different?