On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 10:25 PM, Brion Vibber <[email protected]> wrote:

> Aryeh Gregor wrote:
> > Our
> > current tarballs are 10 MB; we could easily just chuck in Lua binaries
> > for Linux x86-32 and Windows without even noticing the size increase,
> > and allow users to enable it with one line in LocalSettings.php.
>
> Hmm... it might be interesting to experiment with something like this,
> if it can _really_ be compiled standalone. (Linux binary distribution is
> a hellhole of incompatible linked library versions!)
>
Static compiling the stuff? How would this affect the binary size? (And: is
static linking working across different libc versions?)

BTW, what about Mac OS / FreeBSD hosts?

Marco

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