Vorbis dev - Aug 2001 - Executable size with vorbis.

The winamp plugin (full decoder for vorbis) that Mike and I worked on
was 67k, usingi static libs.  remember that smart linkers only link in
the parts of the libs they need, and omit the rest.

jack.

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Hey, this is Chris from Anark, and we would love to use your tools in some
of our commercial applications.  I wrote a compressor/decompressor and
noticed that the size of the executable was rather large.  This is actually
going to be made into part of a project that needs to be small, i.e right
now it is 2 megs total and that is far too large.  The part that needs to be
small 'could' only decompress, with the compression routines needed in a
different piece of software.  Does anyone have any ideas on how to reduce
the size of the libraries?  If we limited compression to only 128 kbps,
could we then eliminate some options?  We are willing to eliminate most
flexibility in order to achieve this.

I noticed that the static libs are huge ~.5megs a piece.  Is there anything
we could cut out to make them smaller?  I threw all of the code into one
static lib and (after fixing quite a few compiler errors) noticed that the
resulting lib was around 600k.  Too large for a downloadable that is already
over 1 meg.

Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.  Chris Nuernberger
(chris.nuernberger@anark.com).

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----- Original Message -----
From: "Chris Nuernberger" <nuernber@colorado.edu>
To: <vorbis-dev@xiph.org>
Sent: Thursday, August 09, 2001 1:53 AM
Subject: [vorbis-dev] Executable size with vorbis.
> Hey, this is Chris from Anark, and we would love to use your tools in some
> of our commercial applications.  I wrote a compressor/decompressor and
> noticed that the size of the executable was rather large.  This is
actually
> going to be made into part of a project that needs to be small, i.e right
> now it is 2 megs total and that is far too large.  The part that needs to
be
> small 'could' only decompress, with the compression routines needed
in a
> different piece of software.  Does anyone have any ideas on how to reduce
> the size of the libraries?  If we limited compression to only 128 kbps,
> could we then eliminate some options?  We are willing to eliminate most
> flexibility in order to achieve this.
>
> I noticed that the static libs are huge ~.5megs a piece.  Is there
anything
> we could cut out to make them smaller?  I threw all of the code into one
> static lib and (after fixing quite a few compiler errors) noticed that the
> resulting lib was around 600k.  Too large for a downloadable that is
already
> over 1 meg.
I'm not sure, but isn't the linker smart enough to only link those parts
of
the lib that are really used, resulting in a smaller executable?
>
> Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.  Chris Nuernberger
> (chris.nuernberger@anark.com).
>
>
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