Hey Amine, seeing https://jira.reactos.org/browse/CORE-14288 just prompted me to look into static vs dynamic 3rd party libraries, zlib and libxml2 in particular. We use zlib in a bunch of modules these days, and libxml2 is large and used in two, so I'm thinking we should make them dynamic.
I just did the experiment for libxml2 and it resulted in at least 0.5MB binary size reduction and 2MB build folder size reduction, so clearly seems worth it.[1] I'll do the test for zlib as well to make sure that's also an improvement. However I was thinking there might be a reason why we build those statically right now. Do you (or anyone else) recall anything that makes switching to dynamic a bad idea? Thanks! -Thomas [1] Raw results: Static libxml2 (MSVC debug with RTC): msxml3.dll - 1887 KB libxslt.dll - 1142 KB libxml2.lib - 4953 KB (build dir only) Dynamic libxml2 (MSVC debug with RTC): msxml3.dll - 799 KB libxslt.dll - 259 KB libxml2.dll - 1592 KB libxml2.lib - 371 KB (build dir only) Static libxml2 (GCC debug with -O1): msxml3.dll - 3856 KB libxslt.dll - 2776 KB liblibxml2.a - 48 KB (build dir only) Dynamic libxml2 (GCC debug with -O1): msxml3.dll - 1505 KB libxslt.dll - 429 KB libxml2.dll - 2553 KB _______________________________________________ Ros-dev mailing list Ros-dev@reactos.org http://www.reactos.org/mailman/listinfo/ros-dev
