Wireshark · Ethereal-users: Re: [Ethereal-users] Re: Large binary after compilation

[Andrew Hood <ajhood@xxxxxxxxx>]

Andrew Reeves wrote:
>>>Guy Harris wrote:
>>>
>>>    Andrew Reeves wrote:
>>>
>>>        I've have successfully compiled Ethereal version 
>>>        0.10.13. However, I find that the binary is really
>>>        huge > 24M after running 'strip -s'. I've downloaded
>>>        some ethereal rpms and the size is no where near that
>>>        large. How can I get not binary to between 5M and 15M?
>>
>>    Did you build it as a static binary? If so,
> 
> that's >probably the problem. "strip" (without "-s")
> on the OS >X PowerPC dynamically-linked binary I built
> recently >yields a file of about 1M.
> 
>>    On what operating system are you building it?
>>
> 
> The OS is generic linux. The libraries contain the
> bulk of the package. 
> 
> These are the sizes of the dir created
> 
> 1.2M    bin
> 19M     lib
> 208K    man
> 4.1M    share
> 24M     total
> 
> The file lib/libethereal.so.0.0.1 alone is 13M.
> 
> If there was a way to eliminate this file or reduce it
> would help to reduce the overall size of the package
> 
> BTW I guess I meant large package instead of large
> distirbution as I'm refering to the bins, libs, docs,....

Mine (Linux) unstripped is 47MB. Why should it matter? Disk and memory
is cheap.

There's a tradeoff. GUI and packet decodes against program size.

If you need something small, use tcpdump and postanalyze the capture
file on a box with real amounts of disk and memory.

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