Re: [boost] Extremely large Visual Studio libboost_log_setup* binaries

On Wed, Jul 3, 2013 at 9:36 PM, Jeff Flinn wrote:

On 7/3/2013 1:11 PM, Andrey Semashev wrote:

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On Wed, Jul 3, 2013 at 9:04 PM, Andrey Semashev **wrote:

On Wed, Jul 3, 2013 at 8:43 PM, Antony Polukhin

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2013/7/3 Andrey Semashev

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On Tue, Jul 2, 2013 at 4:47 PM, Tom Kent wrote:

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example the msvc-8.0-64 build went from 2GB to 5GB. Upon further >> >

Linux kernel binaries weight 2mb, Firefox binaries weight ~100mb. Libraries of Boost.Log weight ~3GB.

Strip the binaries and compare then.

Also, compare apples to apples. The OP mentions the space needed to build Boost, not the size of the actual binaries you get.

FYI: QtWebkit as static lib: ~1.3GB

For sake of reference I just compiled trunk version (practically the same as 1.54) with VC11 x64: 638 464 boost_log-vc110-mt-1_55.dll 254 468 boost_log-vc110-mt-1_55.lib 1 656 320 boost_log-vc110-mt-gd-1_55.dll 255 704 boost_log-vc110-mt-gd-1_55.lib 1 410 048 boost_log_setup-vc110-mt-1_55.dll 24 566 boost_log_setup-vc110-mt-1_55.lib 4 799 488 boost_log_setup-vc110-mt-gd-1_55.dll 24 742 boost_log_setup-vc110-mt-gd-1_55.lib 22 628 438 libboost_log-vc110-mt-1_55.lib 74 337 686 libboost_log-vc110-mt-gd-1_55.lib 162 812 450 libboost_log_setup-vc110-mt-1_55.lib 434 984 284 libboost_log_setup-vc110-mt-gd-1_55.lib By default dlls are built with embedded debug symbols. I'm sure you can reduce them even more if you build with pdb. This won't work with static libs though.