Re: Diet Libwireshark

[didier <dgautheron () magic fr>]

Hi,
Le lundi 02 novembre 2009 à 08:13 -0500, Clint Thomas a écrit :
> Hey all,
>
> After a series of trials and errors, I was finally able to
> successfully cross-compile a working T-Shark for my 85xx platform.
> However, what I have come to find is that Libwireshark.so weighs in
> around 32MB (after stripping symbols), which is far too big for the
> size of my flash RFS image.
>
> Reading around a bit, it seems like I should be able to reduce the
> size of Libwireshark by removing dissector code that goes unused in my
> application. To do this, I tried removing the source entries
> from ./epan/dissectors/Makefile.in, and rebuilding the application,
>  however this did not result in a reduced size for Libwireshark.
>
> I was hoping somebody on this list could clarify where I might be
> going wrong in this approach, or if there is a better way to reduce
> the size of Libwireshark dramatically (I would like it to only be a
>  few MB if at all possible)
I would remove them from Makefile.common rather than Makefile.in and
rerun autogen.sh, Makefile.in is a generated file, it's possible that
your change has been overwritten.

Didier


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