On Tue, Jul 6, 2010 at 2:00 PM, Joerg Bruehe <joerg.bru...@sun.com> wrote:
> Hi! > > > Nima Mohammadi wrote: > > On Mon, Jul 5, 2010 at 8:26 PM, Rob Wultsch <wult...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > >> [[...]] > >> > >> You probably want to compile your own version of MySQL. You probably > >> want to remove debugging symbols* (which have been present since the > >> mid 5.0 series, iirc), and any engines/character sets/etc you don't > >> need. > >> > >> *Alternatively you can run the strip command. > >> > >> -- > >> Rob Wultsch > >> wult...@gmail.com > >> > > > > [[...]] > > I guess for removing debug symbols I need to add the "--without-debug" > > option to the ./configure command. I think using these options would also > be > > helpful: > > > > - --without-man > > - --without-docs > > This will affect the package size, but not the individual binary. > > > - --without-ipv6 > > - --disable-largefile > > "largefile" shouldn't have a big effect on size, but in a tiny embedded > system you probably really don't need it. > > > > > I'm not sure which engine we're going to use, so I'll have to defer this > to > > another time. > > The engine will be quite important, stripping all engines you don't need > will have the largest effect on size. > > > Is there any other work I could do to strip MySQL? > > Check the character sets you configure, get rid of those you don't need. > > You might look into compiler options optimizing for space rather than > for speed, but I hope you are not that much limited by your system. > > If you want to run client/server as separate binaries, you can use > "--without-embedded". However, I guess linking the server part to the > application will have a big effect on space requirements, so you really > should look into that. > > Are you using version 5.1 or 5.5 ? > > > Jörg > > -- > Joerg Bruehe, MySQL Build Team, joerg.bru...@sun.com > ORACLE Deutschland B.V. & Co. KG, Komturstrasse 18a, D-12099 Berlin > Geschaeftsfuehrer: Juergen Kunz, Marcel v.d. Molen, Alexander v.d. Ven > Amtsgericht Muenchen: HRA 95603 > > Thanks for your help. Your answer was quite helpful :) I'm not sure what "--without-embedded" option does but I'll certainly consider that. We are using MySQL 5.1. -- Nima Mohammadi
