Windows standalone bloat

[Neville Smythe]

My standalone uses a browser so I have thrown browser related stuff into the list of inclusions. 

The browser works, at least on a Mac, if  rather slowly. Of course it doesn’t work on Linux, where it warns about no CEF resources, but I accept the browser does not work there. Still. Grumble.

However I have only just noted the ridiculously bloated size of the Windows standalone. The Mac app is 29 MB. The Windows standalone is 372 MB.

It appears the CEF resources added to the Windows Externals folder is over 320 MB. I guess the Mac does not need them as the browser uses builtin Mac system stuff. But 320 MB !!!

Browser appears three times in the inclusions list - 
     Once with an internet icon, applicable all platforms, 
      twice with a jigsaw piece icon (extension??) for Mac and Windows only
           one of those two being “Browser CEF”, the other just “Browser” 

I include the first and the third but NOT the “Browser CEF”. 

I guess the first inclusion was for the earlier method, in which the standalone used the platform’s browser app as a helper rather than an integrated browser widget inside the app - which is not what I want so presumably I should uncheck that inclusion. Or is this the Widget library that I actually do need?

 If I swap my other inclusion to “Browser CEF” instead of just “Browser” will I get a reasonable app foootprint?

Of course I could - and will - just suck it and see, but I thought a rant here might be a warning to others and perhaps provoke an explanation from someone-who-knows as to how the three inclusions should be used.

Neville Smythe