too big binaries

Rob Landley rob at landley.net
Wed Dec 18 19:18:53 UTC 2013


On 12/14/13 13:09, Piotr Rotter wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Any one would send me .config file which in has been compiled this
> busybox binaries
>
> www.busybox.net/downloads/binaries/1.21.1/busybox-x86_64

I posted those, and they're "make defconfig".

> I have problem witch binaries size. My compilation has ~2MiB and few
> applets. Compilation from site has all applets and ~1MiB.
>
> I compile busybox as static binary.

Against glibc, if it's 2 megs. Building against uClibc or musl should 
give you much smaller binaries; glibc is a pig.

Rob


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