Re: newlib, uclib
flat view
From: Pete Buechler <hidden>
Date: 2000-07-06 14:59:48
On Thu, 06 Jul 2000, Ruedi.Hofer@ascom.ch wrote:
Hi In order to build a commercially successful product I have to reduce the footprint of the system. Having a quick look at the files showed me, that the largest files are the libs (libc.so.6 = 4M) ... as u all know. When searching the web for replacements, I came across newlib and uclib. Is anyone out there who has done some work with this libs? Are they easy to use, install, build? Are there other (small) replacements for the libc? /Ruedi
4M sounds like the unstripped size. Make sure you strip the symbols from the libraries if you are desperate for disk space. Newlib is an implementation of the C library, but it was intended for use on embedded systems without Linux. Hence there is no support for the Linux system calls in it. Another option is to identify the C library functions that you are actually using and remove the others from the archive. That would be rather tough by hand. Lineo has a closed source tool called "Lipo" which will do that for you - there may be a free replacement in the works somewhere. -- Pete Buechler : SuSE Linux Developer Work e-mail : peterb@suse.com Work web page : http://www.suse.com/~peterb Personal e-mail : peter.buechler@home.com ** Sent via the linuxppc-embedded mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/