I want to use a Qt external resource file as an expansion file for my Android app. The total size of the resource to be bundled in the resource file is 700+ MB. I have experienced that the resource compiler (rcc) can not handle more than about 500MB before it hangs and crash on my computer. I would really want to make on big file as this makes it a lot easier when uploading expansion files for Android.
I run the rcc tool from the commandline with the following arguments:
rcc -binary -no-compression myQrcFile.qrc -o myOutputFile
I need to use no compression to be able to play video files bundled in the resource file directly, but this is not a problem here.
I have two questions, but the first one is the primary one:
I used MinGW which is a 32-bit compiler. I changed to MSVC 64-bit compiler and I could create large external resource files.