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| author | Dan Fandrich <dan@coneharvesters.com> | 2008-11-14 23:19:18 +0000 |
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| committer | Dan Fandrich <dan@coneharvesters.com> | 2008-11-14 23:19:18 +0000 |
| commit | 73c7acb159bfc136f8814ec03a1eb84d58fc0475 (patch) | |
| tree | 73e23fa93a736d74429fe97b50fbe1ce686f0237 | |
| parent | ea8fbb5233b24745177871a7e1e9105a137f94f9 (diff) | |
Added some more examples of options to reduce binary size. Added x86_64 Linux
as a known-working environment.
| -rw-r--r-- | docs/INSTALL | 15 |
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/docs/INSTALL b/docs/INSTALL index ac1b8b0b2..70aad0c93 100644 --- a/docs/INSTALL +++ b/docs/INSTALL @@ -782,9 +782,13 @@ REDUCING SIZE --without-ssl (disables support for SSL/TLS) --without-zlib (disables support for on-the-fly decompression) - The GNU linker has a number of options to reduce the size of the libcurl - dynamic libraries on some platforms even further. Specify them by giving - the options -Wl,-Bsymbolic and -Wl,-s on the gcc command-line. + The GNU compiler and linker have a number of options that can reduce the + size of the libcurl dynamic libraries on some platforms even further. + Specify them by providing appropriate CFLAGS and LDFLAGS variables on the + configure command-line: + CFLAGS="-ffunction-sections -fdata-sections" \ + LDFLAGS="-Wl,-s -Wl,-Bsymbolic -Wl,--gc-sections" + Be sure also to strip debugging symbols from your binaries after compiling using 'strip' (or the appropriate variant if cross-compiling). If space is really tight, you may be able to remove some unneeded @@ -826,10 +830,11 @@ PORTS - Alpha OpenVMS V7.1-1H2 - Alpha Tru64 v5.0 5.1 - AVR32 Linux + - ARM INTEGRITY + - Cell Linux - HP-PA HP-UX 9.X 10.X 11.X - HP-PA Linux - HP3000 MPE/iX - - Cell Linux - MIPS IRIX 6.2, 6.5 - MIPS Linux - OS/400 @@ -849,7 +854,6 @@ PORTS - StrongARM (and other ARM) RISC OS 3.1, 4.02 - StrongARM/ARM7/ARM9 Linux 2.4, 2.6 - StrongARM NetBSD 1.4.1 - - ARM INTEGRITY - Symbian OS (P.I.P.S.) 9.x - TPF - Ultrix 4.3a @@ -879,6 +883,7 @@ PORTS - m68k OpenBSD - m88k dg-dgux5.4R3.00 - s390 Linux + - x86_64 Linux - XScale/PXA250 Linux 2.4 - Nios II uClinux |