Re: [gtk2-perl] new Inline 0.44 release

[Guillaume Cottenceau <gc mandrakesoft com>]

Goran Thyni <goran kirra net> writes:

> > - it's slow when starting up, we need to use several different
> >   "use" to load up all the stuff, and I suppose having many
> >   different .so enlarges the memory footprint of the app; this is
> >   maybe solvable in Inline?
>
> My idea is to make a hack to build a single .so-file
> and to load that from Gtk2.pm. Since we have all
> Inline dependencies in Gtk2/_config.pm it should
> hopefully be doable without to much work.
>
> Pseudo plan (surely does not work, but something like this):
> 1. Compile all with NOCLEAN (to keep the .o-files around)
>   # rm -fr _Inline
>   # perl fastcompile.pl NOCLEAN
> 2. link a shared objects
>   # mkdir -p blib/arch/auto/Gtk2
>   # gcc -shared -g -o blib/arch/auto/Gtk2/Gtk2.o `find _Inline/build/Gtk2 -name *.o`
>   # touch blib/arch/auto/Gtk2/Gtk2.bs
> 3. copy all *.pm and kill _config.pm
>   # mkdir -p blib/lib/Gtk2 
>   # cp -r Gtk2.pm Gtk2 blib/lib
>   # find blib/lib -name src | xargs rm -fr
>   # > blib/lib/Gtk2/_config.pm

Since we'll have only one .so, what about using the same "use"
mechanism as with gtk-perl, e.g. only "use Gtk2" not use
explicitely all the stuff?

> 4. Add bootstrap to Gtk2.pm
>   # echo 'bootstrap Gtk2 $VERSION' >> blib/lib/Gtk2/_config.pm
>   
> Then we should try to hack this process into a Makefile.PL and/or Makefile
> If I get something like this to work I will check in a build script.

Seems nice! I'm looking forward to having that ready.


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