Re: [javaCompiler-users] binary size

[Marco T. <mt...@gm...>]

Hello Gabriel


gabriel bianco wrote:
> First, great work :-)

Thank you :-)


> Second, I'm not really interested (yet) in javaCompiler itself as I am 
> on the more up to date builds of gcc/gcj that comes with it...

Ok, feel free to use it. Actually I assume that there are a couple of 
people out there more interested in the recent gcj/gcc build than the 
GUI-frontend.
I can upload the removed utilities (bin/*: gcc, gij, ...) if you need 
them. I will do that (and list myself in the binaries section on 
gcc.gnu.org) in a next release anyway... Just removed them to make the 
download smaller.


> I use gcj to make a DLL out of some Java code... Using Mohan's 4.0.2 
> build (thisiscool.com) the DLL size is about 9M.
> Using 4.1.1 (javaCompiler 0.7) it grows to 29M, and with 4.2.0 it's over 
> 40M...
> 
> I would just like to know if there is something I can do to make it 
> smaller...?

I think the source of the problem is described here in the first question:
http://javacompiler.mtsystems.ch/frame_faq.html

Do you strip the dll (gcj -s)?
You might try upx as well (upx.sf.net). With it, I would expect the 29mb 
dll to shrink to ~10mb...


regards
Marco