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Updated minimum libcurl size

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Dan Fandrich 2007-10-15 21:03:40 +00:00
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./configure CFLAGS='-Os' ...
Note that newer compilers often produce smaller code than older versions
due to better optimization.
Be sure to specify as many --disable- and --without- flags on the configure
command-line as you can to disable all the libcurl features that you
know your application is not going to need. Besides specifying the
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sections of the shared library using the -R option to objcopy (e.g. the
.comment section).
Using these techniques it is possible to create an HTTP-only shared
libcurl library for i386 Linux platforms that is less than 90 KB in
size (as of version 7.15.4).
Using these techniques it is possible to create an HTTP-only shared libcurl
library for i386 Linux platforms that is only 96 KiB in size (as of libcurl
version 7.17.1, using gcc 4.2.2).
You may find that statically linking libcurl to your application will
result in a lower total size.