Hi Vladimir,
Awesome - got the same executable size.
Thanks a million for such quick and accurate response.
Back to my Rust tutorial... :)
Regards.
- Adrian.
On Fri, Jul 11, 2014 at 10:18 AM, Vladimir Matveev <dpx.infin...@gmail.com>
wrote:
> Hi, Adrian,
>
> Currently Rust uses static linking to build executables. This means that
> the simplest «hello world» program utilizing standard library will take all
> of this library and all dependent libraries, including Rust runtime, into
> itself. That’s why the binary is large.
>
> If you want to use dynamic linking, you can invoke rustc with `-C
> prefer-dynamic` arguments, this will link the program dynamically, and it
> will be much smaller (8 KB in my case):
>
> % cat main.rs
> fn main() {
> println!("Hello world")
> }
> % rustc -C prefer-dynamic main.rs
> % ls -lh main
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 dpx-infinity dpx-infinity 8,0K июл 11 12:14 main
>
> However, this will mean that the binary is no longer portable; you can’t
> compile it yourself and distribute it to other machines unless these
> machines also have the same version of Rust installed.
>
> Disk size is cheap these days, and portability really do matter, so that’s
> why the static linkage is default. BTW, Go does exactly the same thing.
>
> On 11 июля 2014 г., at 12:07, Adrian Mercieca <amerci...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I am just starting out looking at Rust and am following the tutorial.
> >
> > I have compiled the sample 'hello world' program (code below - copied
> from the tutorial) and compiled it.
> >
> > I was somewhat taken aback at the size of the executable size for such a
> small program.
> >
> > On my Ubuntu 13.10 machine, the resultant executable was a whopping
> 1054476 bytes.
> > I stripped the program and the resultant file was still 806816 bytes.
> >
> > Why is the executable so large? Is there anything I might be doing wrong?
> > Perhaps I need to use some compiler switches?
> >
> > Thanks for any pointers in this regard.
> >
> > - Adrian.
> >
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