[BusyBox] BusyBox now compiles and runs with uC-Libc

Glenn McGrath bug1 at optushome.com.au
Tue Oct 31 01:52:12 UTC 2000


Erik Andersen wrote:
>     [andersen at slag busybox]$ ls -sh ./busybox
>     328k ./busybox*
>     [andersen at slag busybox]$ ldd ./busybox
>             statically linked (ELF)
>     [andersen at slag busybox]$ ./busybox sh
> 
>     BusyBox v0.48pre (2000.10.31-00:14+0000) Built-in shell
>     Enter 'help' for a list of built-in commands.
> 
>     /home/andersen/CVS/busybox # pwd
>     /home/andersen/CVS/busybox
>     /home/andersen/CVS/busybox # echo "It works!"
>     It works!
> 
> Note that uclibc is only adding in 72k when including _everything_
> in busybox.  Not too bad I think...
> 
>  -Erik
> 
So 328KB static with uclibc, i just did a static compile with glibc and
busybox is 674KB. I previously thought a static busybox compile with
glibc was only just over 500KB, in any case its a huge difference.

Congratulations


Glenn





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