Windows Releases 4x larger since version 1.33.0

[haku1gh]

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Not sure if it is intended or a bug, but I recognized that since version 1.33.0 the releases are 4x larger than before. It looks like a lot of debug files have been added. Is there a possibility to bring back the more compact release versions without the debug stuff?

https://github.com/WerWolv/ImHex/releases/tag/v1.33.0 The "imhex-1.33.0-Windows-Portable-x86_64.zip" for example is 210MB large.

https://github.com/WerWolv/ImHex/releases/tag/v1.32.2 The "imhex-1.32.2-Windows-Portable-x86_64.zip" for example is 50.5MB large.

[Crystal-RainSlide]

I found it's the plugins/builtin.hexplug become much larger. Should be it: https://github.com/WerWolv/ImHex/tree/master/plugins/builtin

In 1.31.0, the size of the AppImage doubled, the size of Ubuntu deb is almost 8x larger. So it's been around for half a year.

[Calinou]

It makes sense to strip debug symbols from binaries to ensure users only download what they need. For users on slow/metered connections, a 150 MB difference can be significant.

Personally, I'd say the debug symbols should remain available as separate downloads (.pdb for Windows MSVC, .debug for other platforms). This would be required for https://github.com/WerWolv/ImHex/issues/1580 to be useful with official builds, otherwise it'll only be useful with self-compiled builds.

[iTrooz]

https://github.com/WerWolv/ImHex/pull/1719 and https://github.com/WerWolv/ImHex/pull/1720 should improve this

[iTrooz]

.debug for other platforms

@Calinou I never saw .debug files for Linux and MacOS. Do you have a source for this ?

[Calinou]

@Calinou I never saw .debug files for Linux and MacOS. Do you have a source for this ?

I don't mean for ImHex specifically, it's just that .debug is the default suffix when you choose to enable separate debug symbols in GCC/Clang-based compilers.

[iTrooz]

Humm ok

In any case, I don't think I can significantly reduce artifact size anymore without removing our ability to have stacktraces, so I'm going to close this.

If you have any idea in mind to improve the situation, please feel free to tell

[iTrooz]

Link: https://github.com/WerWolv/ImHex/issues/1714