On Tue, 9 Aug 2005, Dan Fandrich wrote:

> I just built a x86 curl executable supporting ftp only in 123 KiB.
> An OpenSSL enabled version is 850 KiB, so it's likely that the
> majority of your bloated executable is also a result of OpenSSL.

i'm convinced of that as well.

> Your best bests are probably to compile yourself a custom version of
> the OpenSSL libraries with only the features you require, or try
> using GnuTLS instead of OpenSSL.

are you suggesting that TLS libs would be considerably smaller? i'll
have to try that. i still don't know the relationship between SSL and
TLS in terms of dependencies so it's time to do more reading, i guess.

rday
Received on 2005-08-12