On 3/24/2014 10:40 PM, YIRAN LI wrote:
I'm trying to build all components into one dll, because my manager
insisted that building into a single dll may save space by avoiding
build duplicated code into separate dlls.
How is this supposed to work?
Or, to rephrase: What are the duplicated code parts that you found
in different FFmpeg dlls and how much (in %) did they take of the
overall space?
Hi Carl,
I found that every dll links to libm, if it's a static lib (I can only find
.a on my system), does that mean
some code will be built into every dll?
I think you're getting a bit beyond ffmpeg here. The way I see it, a
library is a product of its *.o files. If there is duplication of code
across *.o files, the only way to fix it is changing the source, because
that'll change what goes into the *.o files. You can lump them all into
a single library or split them up, afaik it's not going to change the
overall library contents. The reason you split them up is so that you
can pick and choose the components you need. It's not all-or-nothing.
There may be some extra packaging overhead in having multiple libs, but
it seems to me it would be relatively minor.
An obvious source code artifact that would cause code duplication is
inline functions. I'm not sure even turning optimizations off
(disabling inlining) would eliminate the dupes, because inline functions
are defined in headers, which means they're included in multiple
translation units, which means the code is compiled into multiple *.o
files. The only way to fix that is to change them to no longer be
inline, which is a source code change. Are you sure you want to go to
that much trouble... :-P
(And anyone please correct me if I'm wrong ;) I am aware that some code
changes related to dupe removal can occur at link time, e.g. in C++
where multiple dupe template instantiations can be merged, but I don't
know if there's anything like that for C?)
Anyway, its starting to seem to me like your manager's expectations are
a tad unrealistic...
Andy
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