Re: GTK+2.0 memory footprint

[Harring Figueiredo <harringf yahoo com>]

   Chuck Groom (from Blue Mug Inc.) has written an article on elj (Embedded
Linux Journal Jan./Feb 2002. Isuue #07) 
   In "Custom Widget Frenzy: Coding  New GUIs With GTK+", he talks about how he
drastically reduced the libs dependencies for his usage. 
   If you really think about removing those dependencies, I think that GTK1.2
would be a better place to start, since it is already stripped from a lot of
other stuff on 2.0.

  Hope this helps.
Harring

   
--- Petro Verheuvel <pverheuvel roax nl> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I am investigating the transition from GTK 1.2 to GTK 2.0. I have done a
> 'ldd' on one of the sample programs (buttonbar) i was surprised by the many
> shared libraries that are needed. Not that this is a problem, but after
> writing down the memory used by the libraries i was shocked (i have done a
> standard make; make install of the sources).
>
> I am writing embedded apps and have NOT much disk memory available. So i am
> interested in minimizing the shared libraries as much as possible. Here are
> some facts of the target environment for those who have some hints for me:
>
> Running on X
> Need unicode for internationalisation (Pango)
> Only need the basic widgets
> Only simple icons
> Only need limited set of fonts
> HTML decoding required in the near future
>
> Is there any possible way to customize the libraries (leave things out :-) ?
> Any other hints/links regarding embedded environment are appreciated.
>
> Kind regards,
> Petro Verheuvel
>
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