On Wed, May 02, 2007 at 09:44:09AM -0400, Sheri wrote:
> Philip Hazel wrote:
> > On Tue, 1 May 2007, Craig Silverstein wrote:
> >
> >
> >> What I've done in other projects is -g + strip. This ends up the same
> >> size as just omitting the -g, but this way, if you get a core file and
> >> need to look inside pcre, you can just recompile pcre with -g (and
> >> without strip), and all the addresses will still be right.
> >>
> >
> > There doesn't seem to be a standard way of altering the default compiler
> > options that are set up by Autoconf. I have, therefore, done it "by
> > steam" in the configure.ac file. (If CFLAGS is not set on the command
> > line and it ends up as "-g -O2", reset it to just "-O2", or if it ends
> > up -g, reset it empty, and likewise for CXXFLAGS.)
> >
> > This has a dramatic effect on the size of the compiled library. It also
> > adds a very small bit of performance:
> >
> > .a file .so file time to run RunTest
> >
> > Without -g: 163,374 153,056 1.06
> > With -g: 411,566 331,736 1.08
> >
> > Those figures are on Linux; no doubt there's a similar effect on
> > Windows.
> >
> > Philip
> >
> >
> Would be happy to try it on Windows, but think I would need a beta
> release. Bob said autogen.sh doesn't work properly on mingw.
I'll retry today. Do you have cygwin installed? If so, you can do a
checkout, and then run ./autogen.sh from a cygwin shell. Then you can
run ./configure from the msys shell.
Bob Rossi
