[V4RB] Macho VComponents folder is 22mb???

[Ruslan Zasukhin]

On 8/24/06 11:09 PM, "Dave Addey" <listmail1 at dsl.pipex.com> wrote:

Hi Dave,

> Hi all,
> 
> There have been some discussions on the various REALbasic lists recently
> about ways of reducing the size of built Xcode Mach-O dylibs for use in .rbx
> plugins.  Does the Valentina Mach-O plugin take advantage of these tricks?

I have not follow this discussion yet.
And we still use CodeWarrior.

In nearest days I will start port of V4RB to xcode to get
this plugin to be universal.

--------------
> When I tried these tricks with my own Mach-O plugins, it made a huge
> difference to the size of the dylib file.
> 
> Here's the tips:
> 
> Turn on dead-code-stripping for the plugin dylib, and use a custom exports
> file for the plugin dylib - basically, a text file with just the following
> line in it:
> 
> _REALPluginMain
> 
> ...and be sure to strip out all debugging symbols for all dylibs when
> building in Xcode.
> 
> As I say, this made my plugin much smaller!

I see, we use all this except export file for our VComponents dlls.
 
> As for the Vcomponents, are they also being stripped of un-needed symbols
> etc.?  It all helps :-)  I can provide an Xcode template with these settings
> included, if it helps.

Yes we have play a lots on this...


Again, may be we need make

    2.4.x - last release that support 10.3 ?
        
    2.5   - support only 10.4 and newer ?

-- 
Best regards,

Ruslan Zasukhin
VP Engineering and New Technology
Paradigma Software, Inc

Valentina - Joining Worlds of Information
http://www.paradigmasoft.com

[I feel the need: the need for speed]