Marcus Clyne wrote: > I'm wondering how I might be able to reduce the size of shared object > files I'm generating. > > I'm using the following commands to generate my files: > > gcc -fPIC -o file.o -c src.c (which produces a file > of around 1.5kb) > gcc -v -shared -o file.so file.o -lmylib (which produces a file of > around 5.9kb) > > Since there are very few commands in my shared object (essentially two > or three calls to functions in libmylib), and because I've seen many > shared objects that are much smaller than 5.9kb, I feel I should be able > to reduce the .so file in size. > > Can anyone give me suggestions as to how to do this? I've tried adding > -O2 and -O3 to both calls, and there's barely a difference in size. > > Also, can anyone tell me what the 4.4kb of data is that represents the > difference between the two file sizes? This isn't really to do with gcc, but the linker. Can I suggest that you have a look with objdump and readelf? I don't have your file, so I can't see what's in it. Andrew.
