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| 39 | file that contains perl interpreter, libc, all the modules you need, all |
39 | file that contains perl interpreter, libc, all the modules you need, all |
| 40 | the libraries you need and of course your actual program. |
40 | the libraries you need and of course your actual program. |
| 41 | |
41 | |
| 42 | With F<uClibc> and F<upx> on x86, you can create a single 500kb binary |
42 | With F<uClibc> and F<upx> on x86, you can create a single 500kb binary |
| 43 | that contains perl and 100 modules such as POSIX, AnyEvent, EV, IO::AIO, |
43 | that contains perl and 100 modules such as POSIX, AnyEvent, EV, IO::AIO, |
| 44 | Coro and so on. Or any other choice of modules. |
44 | Coro and so on. Or any other choice of modules (and some other size :). |
| 45 | |
45 | |
| 46 | To see how this turns out, you can try out smallperl and bigperl, two |
46 | To see how this turns out, you can try out smallperl and bigperl, two |
| 47 | pre-built static and compressed perl binaries with many and even more |
47 | pre-built static and compressed perl binaries with many and even more |
| 48 | modules: just follow the links at L<http://staticperl.schmorp.de/>. |
48 | modules: just follow the links at L<http://staticperl.schmorp.de/>. |
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| 1155 | good experiences with GCC 4.4.x but not GCC 4.5. |
1155 | good experiences with GCC 4.4.x but not GCC 4.5. |
| 1156 | |
1156 | |
| 1157 | To minimise code size, I used C<-pipe -ffunction-sections -fdata-sections |
1157 | To minimise code size, I used C<-pipe -ffunction-sections -fdata-sections |
| 1158 | -finline-limit=8 -fno-builtin-strlen -mtune=i386>. The C<-mtune=i386> |
1158 | -finline-limit=8 -fno-builtin-strlen -mtune=i386>. The C<-mtune=i386> |
| 1159 | doesn't decrease codesize much, but it makes the file much more |
1159 | doesn't decrease codesize much, but it makes the file much more |
| 1160 | compressible. |
1160 | compressible (and the execution a lot slower...). |
| 1161 | |
1161 | |
| 1162 | If you don't need Coro or threads, you can go with "linuxthreads.old" (or |
1162 | If you don't need Coro or threads, you can go with "linuxthreads.old" (or |
| 1163 | no thread support). For Coro, it is highly recommended to switch to a |
1163 | no thread support). For Coro, it is highly recommended to switch to a |
| 1164 | uClibc newer than 0.9.31 (at the time of this writing, I used the 20101201 |
1164 | uClibc newer than 0.9.31 (at the time of this writing, I used the 20101201 |
| 1165 | snapshot) and enable NPTL, otherwise Coro needs to be configured with the |
1165 | snapshot) and enable NPTL, otherwise Coro needs to be configured with the |
