On OS X I see that file get as big as ~800-900MB.   The linked binaries are 
only around 35-40MB, for a programthat would otherwise be quite small.

On Saturday, April 9, 2016 at 12:07:01 AM UTC-7, Jochen Eisinger wrote:
>
> That's indeed quite large. I'd expect more like 11MB. You could use ar to 
> inspect the contents of the file.
>
> On Thu, Apr 7, 2016 at 6:50 PM Caleb Champlin <[email protected] 
> <javascript:>> 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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