On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 4:16 AM, Alexander Shaduri <ashaduri@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> 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). > > Keep in mind that I had some problems with Linux version of strip > when running it on windows dlls. > I think the mingw version (usually called i386-pc-mingw32-strip or similar) > is better in that regard. > Also, it's usually safe to use --strip-debug and --strip-unneeded > on libraries, but simply using strip without arguments will damage them. This pointed me in a helpful direction. I was able to aggressively strip most of GTK+ except zlib1.dll. I also removed many unneeded files, and I mixed some old versions of the GTK+ binaries/dependencies to avoid shipping the large freetype6.dll. All this saved me about 500KB in the compressed installer compared to my previous installer. Details in the links: http://bleachbit.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/bleachbit/misc/gtk-unpack.sh?revision=1736&view=markup http://bleachbit.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/bleachbit/misc/gtk-download.sh?revision=1735&view=markup One surprise is Python's *.pyd files can be stripped and compressed with UPX, but they are smaller compressed without stripping. I'd still like to shrink GTK+ more. I downloaded the GTK+ source and looked at './configure --help' looking for a switch to disable parts of GTK+ that I don't use (such as the file chooser, for example), but I don't see anything like that. John, >I should try again: the WIndows build of my app works in Wine now >(woo!) so it's a lot easier for me to test. Good tip. Best regards, Andrew _______________________________________________ gtk-list mailing list gtk-list@xxxxxxxxx http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-list
