On Thu, 14 Jul 2011 08:03:17 +1000, Steve Bennett wrote: > On 13/07/2011, at 10:35 PM, Rene wrote: > >> On Tue, 12 Jul 2011 14:48:42 +0200, Müller, Rainer wrote: >>> Hello, I want to use fossil on an ARM based platform. We have only >>> a >>> few MB flash, so i tried to strip the binary - but the best result >>> was >>> about 1.1MB. >>> >>> I read that someone managed to build a 330kB binary, any >>> suggestions >>> on this issue? I don't need the bug tracking or wiki feature but i >>> doubt they can be deactivated, right? >>> >>> Regards, Rainer. >>> >>> Development Software Systems >>> Festo Gesellschaft m.b.H. >>> LINZER STRAßE 227 >>> Austria - 1140 WIEN >>> >>> Firmenbuch Wien >>> FN 38435y >>> >>> Tel: +43(1)91075-362 >>> Fax: +43(1)91075-282 >>> www.festo.at >>> >> >> I'm not the one who build a small binary. You could try to: >> >> use ulibc http://www.uclibc.org/ (I'm not sure if fossil will >> compile/work) > > That's won't help. Either uClibc or glibc are going to be linked > as shared libraries and the size indicated above excludes libc. > >> use compression http://upx.sourceforge.net/ > > We use squashfs (http://squashfs.sourceforge.net/) on many of our > systems. > Using this approach, all your files, including binaries and shared > libraries > will be compressed in flash. Better than compressing apps one at a > time. > > Cheers, > Steve > > -- > µWeb: Embedded Web Framework - http://uweb.workware.net.au/ > WorkWare Systems Pty Ltd > W: www.workware.net.au P: +61 434 921 300 > E: [email protected] F: +61 7 3391 6002 > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > fossil-users mailing list > [email protected] > > http://lists.fossil-scm.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fossil-users
if you don't have that kind of control over your phone or tablet the individual compression is a nice option. Anyway it was an interesting exercise. -- Rene _______________________________________________ fossil-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.fossil-scm.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fossil-users
