From: "M. Edward (Ed) Borasky" <znmeb@...>
Date: 2007-06-22T23:12:35+09:00
Subject: Re: Looking for minimalist ruby.

Alex Young wrote:
> 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.
> 

There's another trick you can try -- before the ./configure, type

export CFLAGS="-Os -fomit-frame-pointer"

This will optimize for space rather than speed and eliminate frame pointers.