Large size of IPlugEffect plug-ins on Mac

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The size of the Release VST2/VST3/CLAP version of IPlugEffect is 37 MB on Mac and 5 MB on Windows.

I use Xcode v12.5.1, the latest version of the IPlug2 SDK, SKIA library and IGRAPHICS_NO_SKIA_SVG flag.

Is it the correct size of the IPlugEffect plug-in? Is there a simple method to reduce the size of the Mac plug-ins?

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The size of the Release VST3 version of IPlugEffect is 3.6 MB on Mac.
I use Xcode v16.2.1, the latest version of the IPlug2 SDK, but I use IGRAPHICS_NANOVG.
I’ve heard that using SKIA library makes binaries quite bigger.

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SKIA is sadly, big.

you can also try IGRAPHICS_NO_SKIA_SKPARAGRAPH though, which might help

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Thank you for the replies. IGRAPHICS_NO_SKIA_SKPARAGRAPH helps very much. The size of the Release VST3 version of IPlugEffect became equal to 11.7 MB on Mac and 3.8 MB on Windows.

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