RE: [gtkmm] gtkmm is really big

[Eric Newman <enewman ati com>]

I'm sure the problem looks the worst with the smallest program (hello
world). Instead of thinking statically-linked gtkmm binaries are 85% bigger
than gtk+ binaries, maybe you should think they are (x MB) + (y%) bigger. So
as your code size increases, the percentage difference between size of gtkmm
and gtk+ binaries decreases, asymptotically approaching y%. Hopefully y is
small. :-)

Of course this is a simplification, and y probably varies depending on which
parts of gtk+ / gtkmm you're using.

-Eric

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Seth Moore [mailto:seth beere org] 
> Sent: Thursday, February 12, 2004 11:37 AM
> To: gtkmm-list gnome org
> Subject: [gtkmm] gtkmm is really big
> 
> 
> 
> I'm working with a cross-compiled version of gtkmm (against 
> gtk-fb).  The target system is mips-based, and everything 
> /has/ to be statically linked.
> 
> After some struggling to get everything happy, I've finally 
> succeeded in linking a gtkmm app (hello world).  I noticed a 
> huge size increase versus a plain old gtk+ app.  I've run 
> both executables through 'strip --strip-all', and the sizes are:
> 
> hello_gtk    -  2841K
> hello_gtkmm  -  5232K
> 
> That's roughly an 85% increase in executable size!  Has 
> anyone else seen this with a static linkage of gtkmm?  
> Everything was built with gcc-2.95 with -O2.
> 
> Is this expected?  If not, any suggestions on what bloated my build?
> 
> Thanks
> -Seth
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