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On Thu, 22 Mar 2007, Brian Dessent wrote:

> Charles Wilson wrote:
>
> [snip]
> > (2) the java runtime library is huge, and to even attempt to link it
> > as a DLL requires massive (>1GB) amounts of RAM.  I seem to recall
> > that this is due to inefficiencies in the way ld creates import
> > libraries, so perhaps some work in binutils may be necessary so that
> > normal humans with regular machines can build the java frontend and
> > runtimes...see the last bit of this message:
> > http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2006-12/msg00133.html
>
> Yeah, tell me about it:
>
> $ ls -l libgcj*
> -rw-r--r-- 1 brian None 2.9M Feb  3 01:07 libgcj-tools.a
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 brian None   18 Feb  3 01:07 libgcj-tools.la -> ../libgcj-tools.la
> -rw-r--r-- 1 brian None  960 Feb  3 01:07 libgcj-tools.lai
> -rw-r--r-- 1 brian None  93M Feb  3 01:07 libgcj.a
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 brian None   12 Feb  3 01:07 libgcj.la -> ../libgcj.la
> -rw-r--r-- 1 brian None  947 Feb  3 01:07 libgcj.lai
>
> That's a 93 megabyte static archive.

Yes, and the DLL won't be any smaller.  What I don't understand, however,
is why not split it into several static libs or DLLs?  Is there something
inherent in the GCC build/invocation procedure that prevents this from
happening?  The specs can certainly specify more than one default link
library...

This question is not Cygwin-specific, of course.
	Igor
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