On Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 5:33 PM, Alex Black <a...@alexblack.ca> wrote:
> I'm on windows, using Visual Studio 2008 SP1, compiling a Release x64 > build of libprotobuf. The lib file is 29,570KB big, is that > expected? I was going to say "no way", but sure enough, the 32-bit release build is 18,154k, so 64-bit could easily be double that. However, when you actually link a binary with the library, the size is much smaller. protoc.exe, for example, is 1MB, and it includes both libprotobuf.lib and libprotoc.lib, the latter of which is 10MB. I don't know much about MSVC, but perhaps it is including some sort of debug info in this library? Cygwin produces a 14MB libprotobuf.a, but after stripping it is down to 968k. Note that I consider 1MB to be too big for many users, which is why the next version will have a "lite" mode that sheds all the descriptors and reflection features and should be very small. > > > I'm using the provided visual studio projects, but I added the x64 > configuration to them, perhaps I have some options set incorrectly or > something. > > (The debug lib is 33,575KB) > > thanks! > > - Alex > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Protocol Buffers" group. To post to this group, send email to protobuf@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to protobuf+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/protobuf?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
