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Re: size reduction
Hi all,
Well, thanks to Andrew Green's generous assistance I've been able to
create an arm-elf gcj cross-compiler. I'm answering here since I think
it suffers from the same size problem.
Using the -s option I've been able to reduce a simple HelloWorld-type
application from 9.4M to 1.4M :) but, since I had intended to use this
in an embedded application, I don't think I'm quite there yet.
I'm going to try a build gcj with --disable-interpreter so determine
whether this makes a significant difference.
Gil
On Fri, 2003-02-21 at 13:45, Hendrik Schreiber wrote:
> Hi Folks,
>
> I am currently evaluating gcj. We are developing java software for small devices and consider switching to gcj instead of deploying a vm to the device. One of the biggest problems with the small device VMs is size... they are simply to big. However, I gave gcj a shot and compiled a simple HelloWorld on Win2000 with Cygwin, which produced a 2.1mb executeable with default parameters.
> I am sure that the size of this can be reduced, but unfortunately I don't know a lot about gcc. Can someone please point me at ways to reduce the size? What can I expect as the minimum size for a 'standalone' executable?
>
> Thanks - your help is appreciated!
>
> -hendrik
>