Commit add90abf authored by Dan Fandrich's avatar Dan Fandrich
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Updated minimum libcurl size

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      ./configure CFLAGS='-Os' ...



   Note that newer compilers often produce smaller code than older versions

   due to better optimization.



   Be sure to specify as many --disable- and --without- flags on the configure

   command-line as you can to disable all the libcurl features that you

   know your application is not going to need.  Besides specifying the
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   sections of the shared library using the -R option to objcopy (e.g. the

   .comment section).



   Using these techniques it is possible to create an HTTP-only shared

   libcurl library for i386 Linux platforms that is less than 90 KB in

   size (as of version 7.15.4).

   Using these techniques it is possible to create an HTTP-only shared libcurl

   library for i386 Linux platforms that is only 96 KiB in size (as of libcurl

   version 7.17.1, using gcc 4.2.2).



   You may find that statically linking libcurl to your application will

   result in a lower total size.