Re: Enormous C-ISAM binaries

Maybe look if you can compile dynamically link or statically link the libraries. Dynamically linked will reduce the size of your target files. Craig Macbride <craig@rmit.edu.au> wrote in article <60thhj$o4c$1@aggedor.rmit.edu.au>... > I've recently been compiling some really small Informix C-ISAM v7 > programs under SCO Unix 5.0.2, and even a trivial source file becomes > over 500k (COFF) or about 380k (ELF). This is pretty astronomical, > especially compared to C-ISAM v4, which used to produce binaries with > about the same functionality (for my purposes) at under 20% of that size. > > Apart from the obvious (eg. stripping the binaries), is there any way > to limit the massive software bloat going on here? > > -- > Craig Macbride <craig@rmit.edu.au> URL: http://www.bf.rmit.edu.au/~craigm > > "I think there is a world market for maybe five computers." > - Thomas Watson, chairman of IBM, 1943 >