Re: Reduce size of 4GL executables

Simon Athelston Barber wrote: > > Our development environment uses: > > Informix I4GL Version 6.00.UE2 and Online V6.00.UE3 (on HP-UX 9.04) > > My problem is that the size of an executable from 'c4gl' is on average very > large (3-4Mb each). Even a small 4GL with 10 or 20 lines of simple sql will > result in a 600/700Kb file! This means that 600 odd programs in various environments take up a lot of file-sustem space. > > I expect the problem is to do with the number and size of the HP and Informix shared libraries included at link time, but are there any neat tricks I can do to > > 1. exclude any unnecessary libraries from the link-edit; > > 2. get Informix to use 'dynamic-loading' of shared libraries, whereby these libraries are linked in dynamically at run time to improve memory management and > > I'd be very grateful for any ideas... > > TTFN > -- > Simon Athelston BarberSimon, You can use the -s option in your C compiler to automatically strip the binary: c4gl -s -O -nokeep myprog.4gl -o myprog.4ge This should reduce the size a bit. If your compiler doesn't have this option, you can also just use the strip command after the compile: strip myprog.4ge Tim -- \\\\|// (6 6) ==============================---o00--(_)--00o---======================Tim Schaefer (800)587-9502 http://www.gate.net/~tschaefe The Computer Business Company, Inc. tschaefe@gate.net =======================================================================