Re: [wxhaskell-devel] [wxhaskell-users] ANNOUNCE: wxHaskell 0.10.3 rc1

[Mads L. <mad...@ya...>]

Eric Y. Kow:
> On Sun, Mar 16, 2008 at 12:32:46 +0100, Mads Lindstrøm wrote:
> > I have made it now. It is compiled with Debian unstable's ghc.
> 
> By the way, your files seem to be a bit smaller than the MacOS X and
> Windows one.  Are you also using -hcprof and --enable-split-objs?
> 

for GHC 6.8, partly yes. It was build like:

PREFIX=/usr/local

chmod 755 configure
runhaskell Setup configure --enable-split-objs --hcprof --prefix=$PREFIX
runhaskell Setup build
runhaskell Setup install

cd wx
runhaskell Setup configure --enable-split-objs --prefix=$PREFIX
runhaskell Setup build
runhaskell Setup install

cd ..
make debdist


the GHC 6.6 build was without --enable-split-objs and without --hcprof.

Another reason for the different sizes is that (atleast the msw zip)
contains 14 megabytes of documentation. The .deb do not.

But the largest difference is in the lib directories. MSW is 78
megabyte, .deb is 22 megabytes. I am unsure why. Hope I have not made an
error. But the packages do seem to work.

I did a du -hs of the .deb (ghc 6.8 version):

du -hs *
1,4M    imports
676K    libwx.a
1,4M    libwxc-gtk2.6.3-0.10.3.so
656K    libwxcore0.a
2,5M    libwxcore1.a
3,2M    libwxcore2.a
3,2M    libwxcore.a
488K    wxcore0.o
2,2M    wxcore1.o
2,7M    wxcore2.o
2,6M    wxcore.o
4,0K    wxcore.pkg
568K    wx.o
4,0K    wx.pkg

and the MSW:

2,7M    imports
1,3M    libwx.a
2,7M    libwxc-msw2.6.4-0.10.3.a
1,4M    libwxcore0.a
1,1M    libwxcore0_p.a
3,9M    libwxcore1.a
4,9M    libwxcore1_p.a
5,5M    libwxcore2.a
6,4M    libwxcore2_p.a
7,2M    libwxcore.a
9,1M    libwxcore_p.a
1,4M    libwx_p.a
3,2M    wxc-msw2.6.4-0.10.3.dll
500K    wxcore0.o
872K    wxcore0.p_o
2,0M    wxcore1.o
4,4M    wxcore1.p_o
2,7M    wxcore2.o
5,7M    wxcore2.p_o
2,8M    wxcore.o
7,9M    wxcore.p_o
600K    wx.o

and the .deb (GHC 6.6):

1,5M    imports
636K    libwx.a
1,4M    libwxc-gtk2.6.3-0.10.3.so
584K    libwxcore0.a
2,4M    libwxcore1.a
3,1M    libwxcore2.a
3,0M    libwxcore.a
420K    wxcore0.o
2,1M    wxcore1.o
2,7M    wxcore2.o
2,4M    wxcore.o
4,0K    wxcore.pkg
532K    wx.o
4,0K    wx.pkg

These differences are concerning. Could it be that Windows do statically
link against wxWidgets and Linux do not? (Warning! I really do not know
if this the right answer. But just guessing).

Maybe it is because I left out profiling support (from all of GHC 6.6
and from Wx in GHC 6.8) ? Is that what the .p_hi files are about?


Greetings,

Mads Lindstrøm