[Mesa-dev] Shrining mesa binaries.

[nerdopolis]

On Saturday, August 25, 2012 03:28:18 PM Julien Cristau wrote:
> 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

I have tried that already. The binaries still end up about the same size.