[vlc] Re: How to shrink vlc binary size

[Christophe Mutricy]

On Fri, Jan 05, 07 at 17:18 +0800, hu senbo wrote:
> Hi everybody,
> 
> I recently compiled vlc by myself for customization because I want my vlc as
> small as possible.
> Therefore I disable many options and --disable-static --enable-shared.
> After successfully compiled and installed, I find that the size of vlc
> executable binary is
> so big about 9.6MB. And I find the vlc binary in the debian package is small
> (about 1.2MB).
> Could anyone give some suggestions that how to make vlc binary as small as
> possible?

The debian binary use the library present on the system and dynamically
load them.

The win32 build is statically linked to the libs. so the modules can be
quite big (for example the ffmpeg one or wxwidget)
 
hth,

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Xtophe

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