Long start time for static linking application
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Static version of application uses following qt - libs:
#pragma comment(lib, "lib\\Qt5AccessibilitySupport.lib") #pragma comment(lib, "lib\\Qt5Core.lib") #pragma comment(lib, "lib\\Qt5EventDispatcherSupport.lib") #pragma comment(lib, "lib\\Qt5FontDatabaseSupport.lib") #pragma comment(lib, "lib\\Qt5Multimedia.lib") #pragma comment(lib, "lib\\Qt5MultimediaWidgets.lib") #pragma comment(lib, "lib\\Qt5Network.lib") #pragma comment(lib, "lib\\Qt5OpenGL.lib") #pragma comment(lib, "lib\\Qt5Test.lib") #pragma comment(lib, "lib\\Qt5ThemeSupport.lib") #pragma comment(lib, "lib\\Qt5Widgets.lib") #pragma comment(lib, "lib\\Qt5Xml.lib") #pragma comment(lib, "lib\\qtfreetype.lib") #pragma comment(lib, "lib\\qtharfbuzz.lib") #pragma comment(lib, "lib\\qtlibpng.lib") #pragma comment(lib, "lib\\qtmain.lib") #pragma comment(lib, "lib\\qtpcre2d.lib") #pragma comment(lib, "plugins\\mediaservice\\dsengine.lib") #pragma comment(lib, "plugins\\platforms\\qwindows.lib")This MS libs linked for qt proper working:
#pragma comment(lib, "Ws2_32.lib") #pragma comment(lib, "opengl32.lib") #pragma comment(lib, "imm32.lib") #pragma comment(lib, "D3d9.lib") #pragma comment(lib, "UxTheme.lib") #pragma comment(lib, "Version.lib") #pragma comment(lib, "Dwmapi.lib") #pragma comment(lib, "Mf.lib") #pragma comment(lib, "Mfplat.lib") #pragma comment(lib, "Mfuuid.lib") #pragma comment(lib, "Dxva2.lib") #pragma comment(lib, "Evr.lib") #pragma comment(lib, "Winmm.lib") #pragma comment(lib, "Iphlpapi.lib") #pragma comment(lib, "Crypt32.lib") #pragma comment(lib, "Netapi32.lib") #pragma comment(lib, "Userenv.lib")Release and Debug version of application takes long time for first launch (~5-10 sec). Next launches take normal time (less than 0.5s). When application launching first time i see only loading icon and even debugger dont start.
So problem is in windows application loader i guess. When i load application for first time windows loads all necessary dlls into memory and this take a time. When application closed this dlls still placed in memory (for some time) and next launch take less time, cause of all dlls are loaded.
So is there solution to improve first launch time?
Also this situation tested with dynamic version of qt. In this case app starts immediately, but we need single .exe (in business cases).
Qt: 5.9.0 static + dynamic 32bit both
OS: Win10 x64
IDE/compiler: MSVC14 (static version of QT compiled with MSVC14 too)
additional libs: botan, openssl, oculus, directX...(and 5 more private libs) -
@goldstar2154 said in Long start time for static linking application:
So is there solution to improve first launch time?
I think you don't want to hear it, but it is dynamic linking. For a static linked app, the whole data needs to be loaded into memory at once, while for the dynamic linked version the linker can load the libraries "on demand". And if the lib is already loaded, it is even faster.
but we need single .exe (in business cases).
Do you really need a single exe or do you just need the exe with all libraries so it runs without further intervention?
Regards
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I mean only qt static linking, all windows dlls still dynamically loaded ofc
Here is the list of dependencies, there are no qt dlls, only windows
Do you really need a single exe or do you just need the exe with all libraries so it runs without further intervention?
We need single exe, because we using different versions of qt in different exe, and deployment of our program pack with dynamic qt linkage looks like dll hell...
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@goldstar2154
It is true that a dynamically linked executable will load faster than a statically linked because of the size/inability to use already-loaded modules. However on a "modern" PC the difference you report from 0.5 seconds to 5--10 seconds (10/20x) seems very high. 5 to 10 seconds to just load an application is a long time....-
How big is the static executable, and how much free memory do you have available? If memory is short paging is a very expensive operation.
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I wonder whether in addition to the time for load the static version is calling any "initial" code which the dynamic does not? I'm not sure whether dynamic loaded initialises at start-up or only on first call. But this would seem to be counteracted by your statement that after the first time it reverts to 0.5 seconds, and makes me think of memory shortage again....
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@JonB sorry for long reply
debug size is 29.5M
release size is 18.3M
Free memory always a more than needed PC have 16Gb ram. Also i checked swap, swap is newer used for last days. So problem is not here.
Next step i will check all dlls one by one in tes Win32 pure C application, maybe problem is here.no cpecific initial code ... but as u can see a lot of dependencies.. In linux exist LD_PRELOAD key but there is no solution for windows i found.
Thanks for response, if i found any solution or reason i'll report it here.
Cheers.
