Reducing the size of the wxWidgets app. executable

[akkumar]

Hi,
Right now, the application size of my trivial wxWidgets app ( just a frame , containing a canvas and making it visible ) is about 5MB . I was wondering if there is any way we can reduce this app. size.

The linking options that I am having are -

-mwindows
-lwxmsw25d
-lwxregexd
-lwxpngd
-lwxjpegd
-lwxzlibd
-lwxtiffd
-lwxmsw25d_gl
-lstdc++ -lgcc -lodbc32 -lwsock32 -lwinspool -lwinmm -lshell32 -lcomctl32 -lctl3d32 -lodbc32 -ladvapi32 -lodbc32 -lwsock32 -lopengl32 -lglu32 -lole32 -loleaut32 -luuid

Is there any way to reduce the application size , ( in terms of adding / removing some libraries ?? ) or some other options.

[cg]

There has been lots of talk about this on the mail list. YOu can search thru google:

http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&l ... .wxwindows

If you *really* need a compact exe you can use something like UPX:

http://upx.sourceforge.net/

Or you can use borland, visual c++ or digital mars they all have free compilers that products smaller exes. But not that much smaller.

CG

[ABX]

Hi,
Right now, the application size of my trivial wxWidgets app ( just a frame , containing a canvas and making it visible ) is about 5MB . I was wondering if there is any way we can reduce this app. size.

The linking options that I am having are -

-mwindows
-lwxmsw25d
-lwxregexd
-lwxpngd
-lwxjpegd
-lwxzlibd
-lwxtiffd
-lwxmsw25d_gl
-lstdc++ -lgcc -lodbc32 -lwsock32 -lwinspool -lwinmm -lshell32 -lcomctl32 -lctl3d32 -lodbc32 -ladvapi32 -lodbc32 -lwsock32 -lopengl32 -lglu32 -lole32 -loleaut32 -luuid

Is there any way to reduce the application size , ( in terms of adding / removing some libraries ?? ) or some other options.

For release there is no reason to use debug version of library. Also do you really use all the formats of the images ? You can also disable some of the feature. For comparison I once tried to cut size of exacutables experimenting with Borland on minimal wxW sample. I started from more than 3MB. After disabling everything possible (in setup.h) I finished with about 500KB. So definietly there is a lot to play with.

[geon]

You can run strip on the executable. It will remove a lot of "wasted space" in the file. And UPX works fine too. A file of >1 MB can be squezed down to less than 300 kB.

[eros]

You can also link to shared libs instead of static linking. Maybe not to wx itself but if you use external libs that could help too.

[prophet]

Don't use iostream, use wxLogError, wxLogVerbose for logging. That way you can avoid linking in the iostream library.