From: Alex Young <alex@...>
Date: 2007-06-22T15:43:52+09:00
Subject: Re: Looking for minimalist ruby.

soliton wrote:
> Does any body know if there is ruby binary not greater than 1MB? It 
> would be
> better if smaller, because it would be implemented in space constraint
> application like embedded linux system. TIA
> 
$ cd ruby-1.8.6/
$ ./configure
...
$ make
...
$ ls -lh ruby
-rwxr-xr-x 1 alex alex 1.6M 2007-06-22 07:43 ruby
$ strip ruby
$ ls -lh ruby
-rwxr-xr-x 1 alex alex 657K 2007-06-22 07:41 ruby

Mind you, that's without any extensions.

-- 
Alex