I often use this in my cabal ghc-options:
ghc-options: -funbox-strict-fields -O2 -fasm -Wall -optl-Wl,-s
the last runs ld's strip automatically.
mnislaih:
> Austin Seipp has written about this in his blog:
>
> http://austin.youareinferior.net/?q=node/29
>
> "I will take this time to point out that using the GHC API in your
> applications results in *large* executables. The Interact example
> above when compiled with vanilla --make options resulted in a whopping
> 17mb executable. I've observed however you can mitigate this by an
> enormous amount using the tools strip and gzexe, taking it down to a
> light 2.5mb (a size reduction of about 85%)"
>
> Cheers
> pepe
>
> On 31/10/2007, at 9:44, Joel Reymont wrote:
>
> >Has anyone tried to embed GHC as a library recently?
> >
> >What is the size of the resulting binary?
> >
> >I'm assuming a bare minimum of needed libraries.
> >
> > Thanks, Joel
> >
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