nanogui: Thread: What a biiiiig libc!

Hi all,
  I think microwindows is small enough, but my libc.so.6v(2.2.12) is so big! 5M! So, how can I down-size it?
  BTW, what kind of your Linux? Mine is Turbo Linux 6.0(Chinese version), run on 16 color vga mode. My X server can run on true color mode. Why?
  Good luck!
Guo.

On Tue Apr 18, 2000 at 03:02:54PM +0800, ???? wrote:
> Hi all,
>   I think microwindows is small enough, but my libc.so.6v(2.2.12) is so big! 5M! So, how can I down-size it?
>   BTW, what kind of your Linux? Mine is Turbo Linux 6.0(Chinese version), run on 16 color vga mode. My X server can run on true color mode. Why?
>   Good luck!
> Guo.

Check out either compiling with older versions of libc (GNU 
libc 2.0.7 or libc5), or use newlib http://sourceware.cygnus.com/newlib/
which is an embedded libc,

 -Erik

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    BTW, what kind of your Linux? Mine is Turbo Linux 6.0(Chinese version), run on 16 color vga mode. My X server can run on true color mode. Why?

  You have to recompile the kernel and setup your framebuffer for the specific
  type of  video chip that you have in your system.  It appears that you
  are running the simple VGA16 framebuffer.  There's a framebuffer HOWTO
  somewhere that you should read for more info.  One of these days
  I need to add a FAQ for this on the site, I suppose.

  The X server doesn't run over framebuffer, it's using code compiled specifically
  for your video chip.

  Regards,

  Greg

Well, you have two choices.  Either use libc2.0.7 which clocks in at
under 1M for mips, or compile it statically and strip it down.  My
personal slant on this is that I think you should use libc2.0.7
non-statically.  Reason being it will allow you to have a lot more
apps on total because almost everything uses libc! :-).  On my box I
have all the lesser used libs compiled against statically (.a :->),
and everything that's used a lot compiled for dynamic linking.

Thanks,
Shane.

On Tue, Apr 18, 2000 at 03:02:54PM +0800, ¹ùÇ¿ wrote:
> Hi all,
>   I think microwindows is small enough, but my libc.so.6v(2.2.12) is so big! 5M! So, how can I down-size it?
>   BTW, what kind of your Linux? Mine is Turbo Linux 6.0(Chinese version), run on 16 color vga mode. My X server can run on true color mode. Why?
>   Good luck!
> Guo.