The three-way library I use is podofo: https://github.com/podofo/podofo for reading and modifying PDF files.
I have been using the dynamic version of the library provided by vcpkg, now I need to use the static version of the library from podofo, so I compiled a static library using the source code, but it was too big (about 130M), after that I used vcpkg to build the static library from podofo, it became even bigger (about 210M).
I know that static libraries copy in their dependencies, but the size of the dynamic versions of the libraries that podofo depends on when I add them up (about 30M) is also much smaller than podofo's static library file.
Am I doing something wrong there?
try: using "vcpkg install podofo:x64-windows-static" get podofo static lib.
expecting: Confirm that this is normal
If it is normal, is there any way to reduce the size of the static library.