Re: [Caml-list] Executable size?

[Sven Luther <sven.luther@wanadoo.fr>]

On Wed, Nov 12, 2003 at 02:03:35PM -0600, Brian Hurt wrote:
> Using printf brings in most of the printf library, and adds about 40K to
> the size of the executable.  But you only ever need to include it once.
> Doing an ls -l `ocamlc -where`/*.cma shows at most about a meg of total
> libraries to include everything in the standard library (I'm assuming that
> the 988K toplevellib.cma is only needed by the top level).
> 
> If I was willing to let my code out, and download size was important, and
> I didn't mind requiring my users to have a compiler/interpreter for the
> language installed, then I'd be inclined to just ship bzipped source code
> tarballs around.  Maybe with a little compile/install script bundled.  

Notice that the debian package, which is currently split in ocaml-base
and ocaml, where ocaml-base contains only the ocamlrun executable and
the needed dll.so, and is 400Ko of installed size, will soon be changed
to include a ocaml-interpreter or ocaml-toplevel package, of around 3Mo
installed size, containing the ocaml toplevel and all the .cma/.cmi
needed to run ocaml scripts interactively, without needing to install
the full ocaml package, and all its dependencies.

In this case, you just need to add ocaml-interpreter to the dependency
of the package containing your scripts, and everything will load from
itself when you apt-get it :)))

Naturally this will only work if you run debian, or macos X. Maybe
Cygnus also, but i am not sure.

Friendly,

Sven Luther

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