[vlc-devel] [vlc-commits] Win32: Do not ship libgcc*dll

[Jean-Baptiste Kempf]

On 17 Apr, Rafaël Carré wrote :
> > Moreover, let me ask the opposite: what is the benefit of shipping those
> > libraries?
> 
> The benefit is being able to run VLC at all, and it could also help
> reduce the size of binaries since static lib content is copied into each
> module.

First, it does not:
http://nightlies.videolan.org/build/win32/vlc-2.1.0-20130417-0028/vlc-2.1.0-git-20130417-0028-win32.exe
vs
http://people.videolan.org/~jb/vlc-2.1.0-git-win32.exe

Then, with the static version, the webplugins work, because of the dll
location issue.

Best regards,

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