Flavio Tischhauser wrote:
> Hi everyone
>
> First of all, thanks to everyone involved on the development of
> curl/libcurl - it's really great!
>
> I developed a CGI program in C/C++ which uses libcurl to make it's own
> HTTP requests. When compiled on my development machine (SuSE Linux 9.0,
> using the default libcurl), I get a 175KB file which is ok.
>
> I want to provide this CGI to others in a precompiled binary form, so
> others can use my CGI without having libcurl installed. I compiled my
> program again with the "--static" flag and got a whopping 4.5MB file -
> pretty big for a CGI program. Or does anyone know if Apache/Linux
> caching is intelligent enough to prevent the additional
> filesystem/memory load?
>
> Is there a way to strip any unused functions (it only needs to do simple
> HTTP Posts, no SSL, no zip etc) Or do you have other tips on how to
> reduce the size of my program and still run it on every "standard linux
> server"?
>
> Thank you very much.
>
> Best regards
>
> Flavio Tischhauser
>
>
What is your development platform?

Wei
Received on 2004-11-02