I'm trying to do this right now and having a helluva time trying to figure 
this out.

Can you post the steps you took to get this far?   I ended up with very 
large .a files on OS X (much larger than what you're seeing), but the 
linked binaries files were only ~35-40MB.  

On Thursday, April 7, 2016 at 6:49:57 PM UTC-7, Caleb Champlin wrote:
>
> After more effort than I would have anticipated I finally got a new 
> version of v8 (5.0) to build on mingw. I noticed however that v8lib_base.a 
> is huge! Rougly 310MB.
>
> drwxr-xr-x    1 x x  4096            Apr  7 16:39 .
> drwxr-xr-x    1 x x  0                 Apr  7 14:36 ..
> -rw-r--r--       1 x x  322118626   Apr  7 16:19 libv8_base.a
> -rw-r--r--       1 x x  252536        Apr  7 16:22 libv8_libbase.a
> -rw-r--r--       1 x x  690768        Apr  7 16:22 libv8_libplatform.a
> -rw-r--r--       1 x x  1033412      Apr  7 16:22 libv8_snapshot.a
>
> Here's how I built:
>
> GYPFLAGS="-Dv8_use_external_startup_data=0" CFLAGS=" -msse -msse2 -msse3" 
> CXXFLAGS=" -std=c++11 -msse -msse2 -msse3"  CFLAGS_host=" -msse -msse2 
> -msse3" CXXFLAGS_host=" -std=c++11 -msse -msse2 -msse3" make 
> i18nsupport=off x64.release
>
>
> I built as release, and I'm basically wondering if it's normal for the 
> file to be this large. I was able to successfully link a Go application 
> against and everything with V8 seemed to work fine. 
>
>
> Thanks.
>

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