What can be done to reduce executable size?

[Andrea Fontana]

You can try with upx :)

Il giorno lun, 12/12/2011 alle 14.42 +0100, Jacob Carlborg ha scritto:

> On 2011-12-11 23:55, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
> > On Sunday, December 11, 2011 17:28:58 Adam Ruppe wrote:
> >> Jacob Carlborg Wrote:
> >>> As long as the runtime and standard library is statically linked the
> >>> executables will be bigger than the corresponding C/C++ executable.
> >>
> >> I just want to say it's very important to me that static linking
> >> still just works very easily even if we start to offer dynamic linking.
> >
> > Most definitely. I consider dynamic linking to be a necessary evil which should
> > not be used unless you have to. I _much_ prefer having my programs completely
> > self-contained. The less that they rely on in terms of external libraries the
> > better. Sure, there are plenty of cases where dynamic libraries are necessary
> > (e.g. plugins), and the fact that they generally reduce disk space consumption
> > is useful, but it's _so_ nice to not have to worry about the exact versions of
> > everything else installed on the system.
> >
> > - Jonathan M Davis
> 
> It is very nice to not have to think about external dependencies when 
> installing a tool or library, but as you say for plugins it is 
> important. I would hope that it is possible to have the application 
> completely statically linked but at the same time provide plugins for 
> the application.
> 


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