Re: Portable AbiWord

Hi John,

John T. Haller wrote:

> For the unfamiliar, the following modifications are made to a standard
> AbiWord install to make it portable:
>
> - All EXEs and DLLs (except Abi_IEG_Win32Native.dll) are compressed
> using UPX with the options --best --compress-icons=0 --nrv2d
> --crp-ms=999999 -k This shrinks AbiWord's size from 18.6MB to 14.2MB.
>
Erm, what exactly is included in this size? I am asking because the
non-debug AbiWord.exe (and whatever the libraries that come with it when
it is build on mingw are; not the plugins though) should be only ~5MB,
and as Alan said, it compresses down to a size that should fit, or
nearly fit, a floppy. If it is 18MB, then you are compressing (and we
are probably distributing) the binaries with debugging symbols in them,
and someone should look into fixing this -- we should not be passing -g
to gcc for building release binaries (or we need to run the strip
utility on them afterwards, if that works with mingw).

Tomas
Received on Tue Jan 10 20:28:51 2006