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diff --git a/docs/INSTALL b/docs/INSTALL index 6c27d6b15..76ac8b5ea 100644 --- a/docs/INSTALL +++ b/docs/INSTALL @@ -714,6 +714,9 @@ REDUCING SIZE ./configure CFLAGS='-Os' ... + Note that newer compilers often produce smaller code than older versions + due to better optimization. + Be sure to specify as many --disable- and --without- flags on the configure command-line as you can to disable all the libcurl features that you know your application is not going to need. Besides specifying the @@ -740,9 +743,9 @@ REDUCING SIZE sections of the shared library using the -R option to objcopy (e.g. the .comment section). - Using these techniques it is possible to create an HTTP-only shared - libcurl library for i386 Linux platforms that is less than 90 KB in - size (as of version 7.15.4). + Using these techniques it is possible to create an HTTP-only shared libcurl + library for i386 Linux platforms that is only 96 KiB in size (as of libcurl + version 7.17.1, using gcc 4.2.2). You may find that statically linking libcurl to your application will result in a lower total size. |