From: John Spencer <maillist-musl@barfooze.de>
To: musl@lists.openwall.com
Subject: Re: Building libc separately from libm,librt,libpthread and others
Date: Sun, 07 Apr 2013 16:52:08 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <51618818.9080002@barfooze.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAE+eE2KPijbLym0Hv3RH2ub+ALzTL=m4vR+PS8Amo6SjYCRTPA@mail.gmail.com>
On 04/07/2013 04:43 PM, Timerlan Moldobaev wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Can you please help with reducing the size of statically linked libc.a
> library ?
> Whereas the comparison table located in
> http://www.etalabs.net/compare_libcs.html
> claims the size of complete .a set as 333k, I got around 2M while building
> the library on x86_64 with gcc version 4.1.1.
the comparison page also notes that it is using size(1) and not filesize.
> I suppose that might be caused by including in libc.a object files that
> belong to libm, librt, libpthread and others.
> Am I right ?
> Is there any way to compile libc.a solely ?
the only thing that can theoretically be left away is libm, but this
would need some effort.
things like pthread support are fundamental to musl's inner workings, so
they can not be left away.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-04-07 14:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-04-07 14:43 Timerlan Moldobaev
2013-04-07 14:52 ` John Spencer [this message]
2013-04-07 15:43 ` Szabolcs Nagy
2013-04-07 16:04 ` John Spencer
2013-04-08 7:43 ` Timerlan Moldobaev
2013-04-08 15:43 ` Rich Felker
2013-04-07 16:21 ` Szabolcs Nagy
2013-04-08 3:32 ` Rich Felker
2013-04-08 8:31 ` Timerlan Moldobaev
2013-04-08 12:48 ` Boris Alesker
2013-04-08 3:47 ` nwmcsween
2013-04-08 12:54 Boris Alesker
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