Make libgcj.so.9 smaller

[Marco Trudel]

Andrew Haley wrote:
> ffileppo wrote:
> 
>> I compiled gcj for arm using gcc 4.3.0
>> I see that libgcj.so.9 is very big (about 72MB).
> 
> 30M after you strip debuginfo.
> 
>> Which options should I use when configuring to make libgcj.so.9 smaller? I'd like to disable net,awt ecc..
>> Is there a list of option available for this purpose?
> 
> It's a difficult problem or it would have been done already.  Parts
> of the essential java code (such as the class loader) depend on
> networking, for example.  The Java library is interconnected in
> all sorts of interesting places.
> 
> David Daney has done some work in this area, such as reducing
> the size of the reflection data.

There's micro-libgcj [1] and I also posted multiple times the 
description of the procedure I use in JNC [2]. It allows users excluding 
AWT/Swing or JCE if they want to.


Marco

[1] http://ulibgcj.sourceforge.net/
[2] http://jnc.mtsystems.ch

> Andrew,
>