Hi Andrew,
Am 22.02.2013 16:06, schrieb Andrew Clarkin:
> On Fri, Feb 22, 2013 at 12:15 PM, Andrew Clarkin<ajclarkin_at_gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> simple.c compiles to a 2.5 Mb file, even when I alter the makefile
>> options to set SSL, SSH2, ZLIB and so on to 0. Is this normal and is
>> there anything I can do to reduce the size of the final executable?
>
> I think maybe worked this out. I downloaded the source code package
> and ran the makefile without any options specified and the resultant
> libcurl.a was a bit smaller than that which comes with the libcurl
> package. I then copied that to curl\lib and re-compiled the sample
> files and they cam out at around 300 kb. (simple.c doesn't require ssl
> or anything else.)
>
> Please correct me if I've done the wrong thing, but I think I have
> sorted my problems.
no, thats perfectly ok, and what I would have suggested to you too.
The reason why a statically linked app is that fat with the devel
package is because this libcurl has almost every feature enabled, thus
depends on a bunch of external libs - regardless if the app uses these
features or not.

Gün.

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Received on 2013-02-23