Christian Franke writes: > (On NTFS. A copy to a USB flash drive with a FAT will grow the > non-standalone version to ~10MB due to the many small symlink files).
I was mostly interested in the download size. > Most space is used by cygwin1.dll itself. > > busybox.exe with all working features enabled is ~600MB (bash: > ~700MB). Removing the daemons, other rarely used commands and some > features could reduce it to 300-350MB. I did't test LTO build which > could further reduce size. Did you just swap MB for kB or what sizes are you talking about there? For a minimal install-system we should be able to compress everything using UPX. > I did a few tests (e.g. running autoconf ./configure scripts) which > worked as expected. I didn't run any test suite. > According to the sourcecode, the busybox ash has the same origin as > dash: the Almquist SHell. I'd say that's good enough to count as a functional replacement, then. Regards, Achim. -- +<[Q+ Matrix-12 WAVE#46+305 Neuron microQkb Andromeda XTk Blofeld]>+ Wavetables for the Terratec KOMPLEXER: http://Synth.Stromeko.net/Downloads.html#KomplexerWaves
