Hi IOhannes, libfaustwithllvm.a library is a way to ease use of libfaust, without having the use to install/compile LLVM on its own. We correctly use in faustgen~ (where we really need to link LLVM statically), but also FaustLive on Windows AFAICS and David Braun (CC) uses it in various projects : https://github.com/DBraun/TD-Faust and https://github.com/DBraun/DawDreamer.
Embedding LLVM in a library is not so unusual as Cmajor project also demonstrates: https://github.com/SoundStacks/cmajor, with a 143 MO binary on macOS. So I would suggest to but another harddisk !? Stéphane > Le 27 juil. 2023 à 19:10, IOhannes m zmoelnig <zmoel...@iem.at> a écrit : > > hi all, > > i noticed that with faust-2.60.3, building now produces (among other things) > a file libfaustwithllvm.a, which is... huge (286MB). > > this might not be a big problem if you locally build faust and have an actual > use for this file, but I wonder whether I could live without this library > just as well. > I'm asking this with my Debian hat on: currently everybody who installs the > 'faust' Debian package will have to download and install this largish library. > (and speaking with my eat-your-own-dogfood user hat on: both my laptop and my > desktop have /very/ full harddisks: installing an extra 280MB is a serious > problem; i know I could get another harddisk, but then: the one is a laptop, > the other belongs to the uni and it takes ages to get a hardware upgrade) > > so i've grepped the sources a bit, and it seems that this library is only > used by "faustgen~", which I understand to be a Max/MSP thing, so doesn't > need to concern me (since Max doesn't run on Debian). > (yes, there's also pd-faustgen, but this has not seen any updates for the > last 3 years or so). > > so my question is: > - is it save for me to remove this file from the Debian faust package > - if not: is it a good idea to move it out of the default installation/package > - or even better: can faustgen~ (or whichever consumer of this library) also > be built without statically linking the full LLVM toolchain (given that > Debian can enforce depedencies to be installed by its package manager) > > gmasdr > IOhannes > _______________________________________________ > Faudiostream-devel mailing list > Faudiostream-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/faudiostream-devel _______________________________________________ Faudiostream-devel mailing list Faudiostream-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/faudiostream-devel
