I remember i made a simple win32 window app with custom tiny RTL , and final exe size was 4.5kb .
On Sun, Jan 7, 2024, 20:33 Michael Van Canneyt via fpc-pascal < fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org> wrote: > > > On Sun, 7 Jan 2024, Sven Barth via fpc-pascal wrote: > > >>> > >>> - FPC compiled as is: 388976 B > >>> - FPC compiled with full smartlinking: 55920 B > >>> - FPC compiled with C linkage: 388760 B > >>> - FPC compiled with full smartlinking and C linkage: 56792 B > >> > >> Maybe it is a good idea to add these numbers to the above WIKI page, > >> to quantify > >> the discussion and to illustrate what the effect is of various options. > > > > Probably... 🤷♀️ > > > > And just for the fun of it, the size if the RTL is compiled into a > > dynamic package and that is used: > > > > - no smartlinking: 15784 B > > - with smartlinking: 15608 B > > > > With the librtl.so having a size of 649912 B which will ammortize itself > > if multiple applications use dynamic packages. > > Nice result. Smaller than a C program :-) > > > > >> I think we should also explain why linking to C has almost no effect > >> on actual binary size. > > > > That's mainly because the functions that differ between FPC_USE_LIBC and > > not are rather slim syscalls anyway, so the main bunch of Pascal code is > > still the same in both cases. > > I know this, but most likely users will not realize this... :-) > > Michael._______________________________________________ > fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org > https://lists.freepascal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal >
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