[Mesa-dev] Shrining mesa binaries.

[Julien Cristau]

On Fri, Aug 24, 2012 at 14:45:44 -0400, nerdopolis wrote:

> Hi.
> 
> I hope this is the correct place for this.
> 
> I make a Wayland live cd, and in order for Wayland to work, I need to build mesa with Wayland support.
> 
> I get Mesa to build just fine it's just that I notice that the binaries in /egl /dri and /gbm are MUCH larger then the ones provided by the distro, and it's taking up a good amount of space on the LiveCD.
> 
> for instance: 
> The egl_gallium that gets built is 20mb while the one in the distro is 6MB
> The dri folder that gets built is 87mb while the distro is 15MB
> The gbm folder that gets built is 55mb while the distro is 5mb
> 
> What do I need to do to shrink these binaries, and to get it to work on the most possible machines? I notice --enable-shared-dricore that I read about appears to be gone, and I tried using the strip command on the binaries.
> 
Strip them?

Cheers,
Julien