[C++ cross-platform frameworks] - what to use?

[AvDav]

Hello.
I'd like to hear your opinions about various cross-platform (GUI) frameworks. Which one is better in terms of design, easy usage, size of executable, bugfreenes etc.
Currently, I tried wxWidgets, everything is fine, however it generates very huge executable (~4Mb) for a simple application. I also know about QT but seems like it's not free (the one which available for windows development), anyway would appreciate any useful suggestion.
Regards, David.

[JVene]

The cost of QT is considerable.

I use wxWidgets, and the static builds are large but it works reasonably well.

These are really 'the' two, as far as I know.

[Marc G]

I would also consider wxWidgets for cross platform C++ development.

[Luchin_plusplus]

Personal experience, I do recommend WxWidgets too. The sizes for binary executables may be cut down if you take care not to compile against "monolithic + unicode" builds, which is the largest burden I know of.

The only downside I consider there are no easy to use GUI designer for WxWidgets, WxSmith (included with Code::Blocks IDE) and WxFormBuilder pretty much do half the job, but they are not even close to the easiness of design you have with, eg.. any Visual Basic.