Wine binaries size

Vitaliy Margolen wine-devel at kievinfo.com
Sun Jun 29 13:10:41 CDT 2008


dAnIK SeNT wrote:
> Hi.
> Trying to get comfortable with Wine development tools, I noticed one thing 
> that I'm curious about. When I compile wine 1.1.0 on i686 Ubuntu virtual 
> machine (I didn't manage to compile it on my "real" x86_64 openSUSE 10.3 
> despite all the googling and trying and pain :-)), resulting binaries take 
> about 130 Mb on disk. It's way too much in comparison with Ubuntu/openSUSE 
> deb/rpm binaries which take about 50 mb unpacked.
> Experimenting with CFLAGS and ./configure options didn't help at all. Am I 
> doing something wrong?
> 
> P.S. I can do some C++ and want to help Wine development very much, but have 
> no experience in programming for *nix, so excuse my dumb questions. Didn't 
> mean to annoy anyone :-)
> 
The whole compile directory should actually be about 350MB. The difference 
you see is debug information that is not present in binary packages.

Vitaliy.



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