From: Alex Young <alex@...>
Date: 2007-06-23T00:26:13+09:00
Subject: Re: Looking for minimalist ruby.

M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote:
> 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.
> 
I get this:

gcc -Os -fomit-frame-pointer  -DRUBY_EXPORT   -rdynamic 
-Wl,-export-dynamic -L.   main.o  libruby-static.a -ldl -lcrypt -lm   -o 
miniruby
./lib/fileutils.rb:1206: [BUG] Segmentation fault
ruby 1.8.6 (2007-03-13) [i686-linux]

make: *** [.rbconfig.time] Aborted

when I use those options.

-- 
Alex