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@@ -970,8 +970,9 @@ REDUCING SIZE
The GNU compiler and linker have a number of options that can reduce the
size of the libcurl dynamic libraries on some platforms even further.
Specify them by providing appropriate CFLAGS and LDFLAGS variables on the
- configure command-line:
- CFLAGS="-ffunction-sections -fdata-sections" \
+ configure command-line, e.g.
+ CFLAGS="-Os -ffunction-sections -fdata-sections \
+ -fno-unwind-tables -fno-asynchronous-unwind-tables" \
LDFLAGS="-Wl,-s -Wl,-Bsymbolic -Wl,--gc-sections"
Be sure also to strip debugging symbols from your binaries after
@@ -981,9 +982,9 @@ REDUCING SIZE
.comment section).
Using these techniques it is possible to create a basic HTTP-only shared
- libcurl library for i386 Linux platforms that is only 101 KiB in size, and
- an FTP-only library that is 105 KiB in size (as of libcurl version 7.21.5,
- using gcc 4.4.3).
+ libcurl library for i386 Linux platforms that is only 106 KiB in size, and
+ an FTP-only library that is 108 KiB in size (as of libcurl version 7.27.0,
+ using gcc 4.6.3).
You may find that statically linking libcurl to your application will
result in a lower total size than dynamically linking.