[Box Backup] OpenSSL 1.0.0 and PCRE 7.9

scartomail boxbackup@boxbackup.org
Mon, 31 Aug 2009 01:29:04 -0700 (PDT)


Hi Achim,

Thanks for the explanation.
I'll thake that advise and write it down for final versions.
For now the extra mb's don't realy matter.

Rgds Edo


--- On Sat, 8/29/09, Achim <achim+box@qustodium.net> wrote:

> From: Achim <achim+box@qustodium.net>
> Subject: Re: [Box Backup] OpenSSL 1.0.0 and PCRE 7.9
> To: boxbackup@boxbackup.org
> Date: Saturday, August 29, 2009, 5:42 PM
> Hello Edo:
> 
> On 28/08/2009 15:38, scartomail wrote:
> > Yes I did, but they are much bigger than the ones you
> have in your latest boxi builds:
> > http://cuba-project.org/EXPERIMENTAL_Boxi_builds
> > 
> > bbackupd.ex for instance is 2.6mb and in your zip the
> same file is 0.5mb
> > Is this because of the extra code that came with the
> latest trunk version?
> 
> I use the strip command ("strip programname.exe" under
> cygwin) to remove all the debugging symbols, and then run
> the UPX packer [1] on every bynary (including DLLs) to
> obtain smaller files.
> 
> Please be aware that binaries created that way may make it
> harder for people on this list to help you later on, as you
> might be missing out some debugging symbols they might
> require.
> 
> Best regards, Achim
> 
> [1] <http://upx.sourceforge.net/>
> 
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