On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 04:57:40PM +0100, Jamie Lokier wrote:
> Jeff Bacon wrote:
> > On 4/21/2010 11:04 AM, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> > What version of Busybox are you using? I am finding it difficult to make
> > a newer version (1.15.x, 1.16.0) that small. In fact, when I configure
> > it with a single applet, I still somehow get a ~200kB binary. Are there
> > other options you are using in the build process to make your BB binary
> > so small?
> 
> You don't have to have just one busybox binary containing everything.

Ideally, one should have only one XIP (thus shared) busybox with zero-sized
data and bss segments (rodata is allowed but moved into text segment).

Then each new process needs only to allocate a stack + heap if needed.

Philippe
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