Re: GNAT Executables: How low can you go?

[geert@fozzie.sun3.iaf.nl (Geert Bosch)]

Michael F Brenner (mfb@mbunix.mitre.org) wrote:
`` There is no need to justify tiny executables, 140K is a Bloated
   hello-world.  Would it be possible to post the commands you used to
   build the DLL so we could all have tiny executables? ''

OK, it has been delayed a little because I couldn't work on it last
week, but I've tried to reproduce all commands I had used to generate
the DLL and the applications. That part turned out to be harder than
I thought, and at first there were also problems because of bugs in the
emximp and emxexp utilities.  For the GNAT examples generated by
/emx/gnat/examples/examples.cmd the old size is 800 kB, the new
soze is 28 kB for the examples, plus 240 kB for the DLL.

I put the command to generate the DLL in a makefile. Because of the
many e-mails I got, I thought it would be appropriate to post the files
to comp.lang.ada. To prevent problems with the tabs etc. in the makefiles,
I zipped and uuencoded them. The total data is just 150 lines, I hope
nobody has problems with this small binary.

Let me here of any success or problems you have with the
software. Note that only very little testing has been done:
I've not done any multitasking tests and I don't have by any means a
standard emx installation, so there might be installation problems.

Regards,
   Geert

begin 640 gnatdll.zip
<uuencoded_portion_removed>
;<"YC;6102P4&      D "0#U 0  C1<     
 
end
-- 
E-Mail: geert@sun3.iaf.nl     *** As far as we know, there have not been ***
 Phone: +31-53-4303054        ** any undetected failures in our software. **