My qt folder is so big!!!Help

**chinaeli** · 21st January 2010, 12:14

when I install qt in windows7 , the qt folder's size is more than 5GB in my Disk C.
Is that right ?

Sorry for my poor English...

**vishwajeet.dusane** · 21st January 2010, 13:41

Hi

Yes it goes upto 5GB and main reason is example and demos folder which comes along with it.

If you do not need exmaple and demos to get started doing coding then just remove example folder it self. otherwise run

nmake distclean all

and clean all the generated files by examples and demos so that sources you can use for later purpose.

Also you can remove Qt sources (YOUR_QT_DIRECTORY/src) completely that will reduce your space on disk or just webkit sources (YOUR_QT_DIRECTORY/src/3rdparty/webkit) if you need Qt sources for later purpose.

**aamer4yu** · 21st January 2010, 17:37

nmake confclean from YOUR_QT_DIRECTORY will be better I guess.
Size gets reduced to around 900 MB and you still have the demos and examples

**wysota** · 22nd January 2010, 10:22

And get rid of debug versions of all libraries you won't need. Using a compressed filesystem is a good choice here as well as you only read from this directory and never modify it. Together with using precompiled headers while compiling the loss of compilation speed should be insignificant.