[MPlayer-dev-eng] How can I reduce the size of mplayer?

[D Richard Felker III]

On Wed, Jan 14, 2004 at 01:35:19PM +0000, Adam Rice wrote:
> Quoting Gábor Lénárt (lgb at lgb.hu):
> > libc is linked staticaly too?
> > glibc2 is very large stuff, maybe you can try some "mini libc" projects
> > instead ...
> 
> dietlibc seems pretty complete. For some simple tests I did, the statically
> linked dietlibc binaries were smaller than the dynamically linked glibc ones
> :-) I found glibc practically unusable for static linking. It compiles the
> entire dynamic linker into everything. Having said that, porting a large
> complex application like mplayer to dietlibc will inevitably involve some
> pain. It's usually used for tiny applications on boot disks!

MPlayer will compile out of the box on uclibc, which is much nicer
than dietlibc. If it gives you problems, submit a bug report and we'll
fix it.

Rich