Yes, according to current gRPC implementation, stream can't be used with
LITE_RUNTIME configuration in the .proto file?

Thanks,
Roy.

On Tue, Dec 4, 2018 at 7:19 PM Adam Cozzette <[email protected]> wrote:

> For one Android binary I worked on recently, the protobuf runtime used
> about 135 KB of space. This was for an ARM build, and I imagine the amount
> could vary quite a bit depending on the platform and what runtime code you
> end up depending on.
>
> I'm not familiar with that gRPC issue, so you may want to ask the gRPC
> folks about that. Does the "stream" modifier prevent you from
> setting optimize_for = LITE_RUNTIME in the .proto file?
>
> On Mon, Dec 3, 2018 at 11:05 PM Roy Barda <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Thank you Adam for the detailed suggestion.
>>
>> 1. Can you please let me know what was the addition in KB/MB of protobuf
>> usage when you linked it statically to your Android code?
>> 2. Using libprotobuf-lite blocks me from using the "stream" modifier
>> (streaming feature) in gRPC, anyway to work around it?
>>
>> Appreciate your help,
>> Roy.
>>
>> On Tuesday, December 4, 2018 at 5:51:57 AM UTC+2, Adam Cozzette wrote:
>>>
>>> Do you plan to link statically or dynamically against the protobuf
>>> library? If you can link against it statically, I think you may find that
>>> the linker is able to remove a lot of unused code. For Android (which is an
>>> environment where we care a lot about code size), what we generally do is:
>>> - Use lite protos only (i.e. set option optimize_for = LITE_RUNTIME in
>>> every .proto file)
>>> - Link against libprotobuf-lite and not libprotobuf
>>> - Pass -ffunction-sections and -fdata-sections to the compiler and
>>> -Wl,-gc-sections to the linker to maximize the linker's ability to strip
>>> out unused code
>>>
>>> On Sun, Dec 2, 2018 at 10:34 PM Roy Barda <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> I have build protobuf on my Ubuntu environment and saw that the
>>>> libraries size are extremely big.
>>>>
>>>> 28 MB for libprotobuf.
>>>> 4 MB for libprotobuf-lite
>>>>
>>>> I'm aware of nanopb project but I need to use gRPC with protobuf and
>>>> there is no good, working and maintained solution for nanopb.
>>>>
>>>> I followed the regular build process when I built protobuf (with no
>>>> special configuration)
>>>>
>>>> Is there any way to reduce the protobuf library footprint? We are
>>>> looking for a 1MB solution.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>>
>>>> Roy.
>>>>
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