Re: [fossil-users] optimize size of binary
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: ste...@workware.net.au F: +61 7 3391 6002 ___ fossil-users mailing list fossil-users@lists.fossil-scm.org 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 fossil-users@lists.fossil-scm.org http://lists.fossil-scm.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fossil-users
Re: [fossil-users] optimize size of binary
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 Der Inhalt dieses E-Mails ist ausschliesslich fuer den bezeichneten Adressaten bestimmt. Jede Form der Kenntnisnahme, Veroeffentlichung, Vervielfaeltigung oder Weitergabe des Inhalts dieses E-Mails durch unberechtigte Dritte ist unzulaessig. Wir bitten Sie, sich mit dem Absender des E-Mails in Verbindung zu setzen, falls Sie nicht der Adressat dieses E-Mails sind und das Material von Ihrem Computer zu loeschen. This e-mail and any attachments are confidential and intended solely for the addressee. The perusal, publication, copying or dissemination of the contents of this e-mail by unauthorised third parties is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient of this e-mail, please delete it and immediately notify the sender. 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) use compression http://upx.sourceforge.net/ with regards to disable wiki and bug tracking you could change relevant sections like /* ** WEBPAGE: tktview ** URL: tktview?name=UUID ** ** View a ticket. */ if your would change WEBPAGE: to WEB: then the fossil preprocessor will not include those functions. It is a bit of work, I don't know if it works. (I wonder if it could be make configurable e.g. -DWIKI=1 -DTICKET=1 to compile in this subsystems.) if it will save you a lot of space I don't know. upx compression is the easiest and simplest and can give you instant results. The other 2 options is a lot of work. But I find the ulibc one interesting. Maybe I'll give it a try myself :-) -- Rene ___ fossil-users mailing list fossil-users@lists.fossil-scm.org http://lists.fossil-scm.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fossil-users
Re: [fossil-users] optimize size of binary
Hello, I managed to reduce the size to 850kB by removing help texts, wiki and ticket system. Yes, would be nice to make this configurable. Regards, Rainer. -Original Message- From: fossil-users-boun...@lists.fossil-scm.org [mailto:fossil-users-boun...@lists.fossil-scm.org] On Behalf Of Rene Sent: Wednesday, July 13, 2011 2:35 PM To: fossil-users@lists.fossil-scm.org Subject: Re: [fossil-users] optimize size of binary On Tue, 12 Jul 2011 14:48:42 +0200, Mueller, 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 Der Inhalt dieses E-Mails ist ausschliesslich fuer den bezeichneten Adressaten bestimmt. Jede Form der Kenntnisnahme, Veroeffentlichung, Vervielfaeltigung oder Weitergabe des Inhalts dieses E-Mails durch unberechtigte Dritte ist unzulaessig. Wir bitten Sie, sich mit dem Absender des E-Mails in Verbindung zu setzen, falls Sie nicht der Adressat dieses E-Mails sind und das Material von Ihrem Computer zu loeschen. This e-mail and any attachments are confidential and intended solely for the addressee. The perusal, publication, copying or dissemination of the contents of this e-mail by unauthorised third parties is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient of this e-mail, please delete it and immediately notify the sender. 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) use compression http://upx.sourceforge.net/ with regards to disable wiki and bug tracking you could change relevant sections like /* ** WEBPAGE: tktview ** URL: tktview?name=UUID ** ** View a ticket. */ if your would change WEBPAGE: to WEB: then the fossil preprocessor will not include those functions. It is a bit of work, I don't know if it works. (I wonder if it could be make configurable e.g. -DWIKI=1 -DTICKET=1 to compile in this subsystems.) if it will save you a lot of space I don't know. upx compression is the easiest and simplest and can give you instant results. The other 2 options is a lot of work. But I find the ulibc one interesting. Maybe I'll give it a try myself :-) -- Rene ___ fossil-users mailing list fossil-users@lists.fossil-scm.org http://lists.fossil-scm.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fossil-users 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 Der Inhalt dieses E-Mails ist ausschliesslich fuer den bezeichneten Adressaten bestimmt. Jede Form der Kenntnisnahme, Veroeffentlichung, Vervielfaeltigung oder Weitergabe des Inhalts dieses E-Mails durch unberechtigte Dritte ist unzulaessig. Wir bitten Sie, sich mit dem Absender des E-Mails in Verbindung zu setzen, falls Sie nicht der Adressat dieses E-Mails sind und das Material von Ihrem Computer zu loeschen. This e-mail and any attachments are confidential and intended solely for the addressee. The perusal, publication, copying or dissemination of the contents of this e-mail by unauthorised third parties is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient of this e-mail, please delete it and immediately notify the sender. ___ fossil-users mailing list fossil-users@lists.fossil-scm.org http://lists.fossil-scm.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fossil-users
Re: [fossil-users] optimize size of binary
On Wed, 13 Jul 2011 14:39:04 +0200, Müller, Rainer wrote: Hello, I managed to reduce the size to 850kB by removing help texts, wiki and ticket system. Yes, would be nice to make this configurable. Regards, Rainer. strip and compress with upx deliver on linux 1.0M Jul 13 16:58 fossil 415k Jul 13 16:58 fossilupx under windows it became 1.2M Jul 11 11:54 fossil.exe 553K Jul 11 11:54 fossilupx.exe -- Rene ___ fossil-users mailing list fossil-users@lists.fossil-scm.org http://lists.fossil-scm.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fossil-users
Re: [fossil-users] optimize size of binary
On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 2:35 PM, Rene renew...@xs4all.nl wrote: /* ** WEBPAGE: tktview ** URL: tktview?name=UUID ** ** View a ticket. */ if your would change WEBPAGE: to WEB: then the fossil preprocessor will not include those functions. It is a bit of work, I don't know if it works. perl -i -pe 's/\bWEBPAGE\b/EBPAGE/g' src/*.c but that probably won't reduce the binary size. -- - stephan beal http://wanderinghorse.net/home/stephan/ ___ fossil-users mailing list fossil-users@lists.fossil-scm.org http://lists.fossil-scm.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fossil-users
Re: [fossil-users] optimize size of binary
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: ste...@workware.net.au F: +61 7 3391 6002 ___ fossil-users mailing list fossil-users@lists.fossil-scm.org http://lists.fossil-scm.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fossil-users
[fossil-users] optimize size of binary
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 Der Inhalt dieses E-Mails ist ausschliesslich fuer den bezeichneten Adressaten bestimmt. Jede Form der Kenntnisnahme, Veroeffentlichung, Vervielfaeltigung oder Weitergabe des Inhalts dieses E-Mails durch unberechtigte Dritte ist unzulaessig. Wir bitten Sie, sich mit dem Absender des E-Mails in Verbindung zu setzen, falls Sie nicht der Adressat dieses E-Mails sind und das Material von Ihrem Computer zu loeschen. This e-mail and any attachments are confidential and intended solely for the addressee. The perusal, publication, copying or dissemination of the contents of this e-mail by unauthorised third parties is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient of this e-mail, please delete it and immediately notify the sender. ___ fossil-users mailing list fossil-users@lists.fossil-scm.org http://lists.fossil-scm.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fossil-users
