Re: Reduce size of 4GL executables

Check what the c4gl script does when you use the -shared option. It should link with the I4GL shared library -- if that port had it. The default was still to use static by default -- because it always had been. I disagreed with that, but was over-ruled. Set environment variable C4GLFLAGSto include '-shared' to ensure that shared libraries are always used. Yours, Jonathan Leffler (johnl@informix.com) #include <disclaimer.h> }From: Simon Athelston Barber <beaker@century.demon.co.uk> }Date: Fri, 08 Mar 96 11:32:55 GMT }X-Informix-List-Id: <news.21891> } }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 either: } } 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 generally make things more efficient.