Re: [wxlua-users] wx.so library in linux

[Milind G. <mil...@gm...>]

Hi John,
         Thanks for the explanation below. Is it possible to put all the
shared libraries into 1 so that I can create a single file application with
wxluafreeze in linux?

Regards,
Milind


On Sun, Aug 19, 2012 at 7:48 PM, John Labenski <jla...@gm...> wrote:

> On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 2:52 AM, Milind Gupta <mil...@gm...>
> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >        I used wxluafreeze to convert my application to an executable
> file in
> > linux. But I see that the wx.so file that I have in linux is 446KB while
> in
> > windows wx.dll was 5.7MB and there is a similar difference between my
> > application size. Is this right? Do the wx libraries have such a big size
> > difference or is there something missing in my linux library.
>
> You're probably building all shared libraries? This means that wx.so
> links to the other wxLua libraries and wxWidgets libraries which
> contain all the code. This is the typical Linux model where these
> shared libs can be linked to by many apps or other libs reducing the
> overall size of all the apps/libs on disk.
>
> Run  "ldd wx.so" to see what libs it depends on.
>
> I decided to try to put everything into the wx.dll for Windows since
> having a whole bunch of shared libs is more trouble since the DLLs
> have to be in the path or same dir and "Windows people" are not as
> used to seeing a whole bunch of shared libs along with the app.
>
> Regards,
>       John
>
>
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