On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 2:34 PM, <jcupitt@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 31 March 2010 17:59, Andrew Ziem <ahz001@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>> It's probably possible to shrink that a bit more, perhaps by stripping >>> symbols from the files more aggressively. >> >> Wow, using Linux 'strip -v bin/*' cuts the bin directory from 16M to >> 9.3M! After UPX, it's down to 3.9M (compare to 7.8MB below). > > Good stuff. I think you need to be a bit careful with strip, it's > possible to break linking if you take too much off (I seem to remember > breaking it at some point anyway). Test carefully! I hadn't tested yet when I wrote that :). Now I see that stripping almost anything (except freetype6.dll) causes the app to not start. >From Linux I tried 'strip' and 'strip -g'. Are there safer ways to strip? The good news is through this I did find a few more files to delete rm -rf manifest rm bin/libtiff-3.dll rm bin/libtiffxx-3.dll rm lib/gtk-2.0/2.10.0/engines/libpixmap.dll rm bin/*exe find lib/gtk-2.0/2.10.0/loaders/ | grep dll$ | grep -v png | xargs rm > You could take a look at projects like Inkscape. It'd be interesting > to see how large the stack they use is --- they have put a lot of time > into this sort of issue. Good idea. I started looking but haven't found anything yet. Best regards, Andrew _______________________________________________ gtk-list mailing list gtk-list@xxxxxxxxx http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-list
