Can't say I'm very experienced with cross-compiling, etc. but I did
manage to get CURL going on a StrongArm processor and a "ls -l"
returns the following:

-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 565830 Mar 31 2003 curl

$./curl --version
curl 7.10.3 (arm-unknown-linux-gnu) libcurl/7.10.3

Jim

Daniel Stenberg wrote:
>
> On Mon, 11 Aug 2003, Harit Patel wrote:
>
> > I am new to this forum and I wanted to ask a fundamental question before
> > proceeding to learn the library.
>
> Welcome to the curl corner of the universe! Let me start by pointing out that
> if you're into the libcurl view of things, then the curl-library mailing list
> might be a better place to post questions.
>
> > I need to use some simple browser functions (HTTP + SSL) to request HTML
> > pages and to POST to a webserver. I need to do this from an embedded system
> > and hence the code needs to be small. I tried to use libwww and although I
> > can get the work done, the binary code is still of the order of 4 MB which
> > is too big for my system.
>
> Hehe. I figure.
>
> > I was now wondering if anyone could help me understand the way this library
> > would function predominantly with respect to the binary size of the final
> > code. I will be using BASIC calls like GET, POST etc and a little bit in
> > COOKIE handling and SSL. Given these requirements, if someone can give me an
> > idea of how BIG the final code would be that would be great.
> >
> > ALso what is the size of the code when you just initialise the library and
> > compile it?
>
> It is quite impossible to say, as you don't mention anything about what CPU it
> is. You do know that it'll differ quite a lot between various platforms,
> right?
>
> I suggest you go ahead and build it for your target and install it, then
> you'll see for yourself without having to rely on anyone's guesses here. Just
> remember to strip things to make them as small as possible. You should be able
> to get the library size down to a lot less than 200K on a x86/pentium clone
> (as the full curl tool is jus about 200K when built for windows and that
> contains a huge chunk of help texts and client-side code).
>
> Also, remember that libwww provides a whole lot more functionality than
> libcurl does, so if you need any of that functionality you may need to provide
> it using additional code.
>
> --
> Daniel Stenberg -- curl: been grokking URLs since 1998
>
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