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[sc0ttman]

How does Barry compile urxvt? My builds work, but are way too big!!

I have tried compiling different versions, from 9.05 to the latest, with various options enabled and disabled..

I have tried compiling it with most things disabled.. But I still have the same problem...
Barrys urxvt binary ends up about 265kb, mine is always over 1mb!!

So, how does barry get urxvt so small, when compiling it?

[sc0ttman]

Just so you know, I want to compile it to add 256 colour support..

I would update the 1st post to have this information, but we STILL can't edit our posts in this sub section!!

[amigo]

With barry's build system, you'd have to search through his blog or download the complete sources (or maybe in woof somewhere) to find out what compile-time options he used. The again, he may have used a pet put together by some contributor -even years ago so we don't even know what the options were.

--enable-256-color is the option you need to use. On my KISS system, the xterm binary is 308K without doing any really extreme optimization. You are probably looking at the raw *unstripped* size. Simply stripping it may knock off most of the difference you see. BK's may also be compressed with upx. for some programs, stripping alone will take off 75%! of the raw size.

It took me about 5 seconds to find the full CLFAGS, LDLFAGS and configure options I used on KISS. But it's on another machine so not really convenient to paste the options here.

[sc0ttman]

Thanks for the info... I should have stated, that Barrys 265kb binary is not upx'd, mine was twice as big, even when upx'd (600kb) ... I ran 'strip' on both binaries before comparing... Strip did not make much difference, about 40% if I remember correctly...

Oh well, I knew it would be hard to find the configure line he used... Or who else if it wasn't Barry...

Would still love a really light, 256 colour, UTF-8 enabled terminal...
(I like elinks..)

[Dingo]

try applying:

[sc0ttman]

[sc0ttman]

Hmm.. the strip command seems to be having a much greater effect than before, with a few different options.. I now get a nice small binary .. And the --with-codesets="" seems to make a big difference..

I am really only looking to upgrade a few features to make elinks work nicer.. I basically want a UTF-8 enabled terminal (showing cyrillic, etc, without problems) that can ALSO show the 'VTE' or 'Linux, OS/2' frames in elinks..

At the moment, I've got UTF-8 and 256 colours, but cannot get urxvt to show any frames in elinks correctly, this is my last stumbling block.. Does anyone know what settings or options are resonsible for this? I am keen to get it done, because using 256 colours is nice, and doesn't seem to affect the size or speed much at all..

[sc0ttman]

I should note that Barrys urxvt shows the frames OK, but no 256 colours..

[sc0ttman]

Here's the config line I used: (and others similar)...:

./configure CFLAGS=" -pipe -combine -Os -ffunction-sections -fdata-sections -momit-leaf-frame-pointer -fomit-frame-pointer -fmerge-all-constants -mpreferred-stack-boundary=2 -march=i486 -mtune=i686 " --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc --localstatedir=/var --build=i486-pc-linux-gnu --with-term=urxvt --enable-256-color --disable-unicode3 --enable-xft --enable-font-styles --disable-afterimage --disable-pixbuf --disable-transparency --disable-fading --disable-rxvt-scroll --disable-next-scroll --disable-xterm-scroll --disable-perl --disable-xim --enable-backspace-key --enable-delete-key --disable-resources --disable-swapscreen --disable-iso14755 --disable-frills --enable-keepscrolling --enable-selectionscrolling --enable-mousewheel --disable-slipwheeling --disable-smart-resize --disable-text-blink --disable-pointer-blank --disable-utmp --disable-wtmp --disable-lastlog --with-codesets="" --disable-combining --disable-assert

[big_bass]

if you used slackware or the sbopkg tool
I posted in cutting edge section this package builds correctly automatically with these options

*the package wont build without pkgtool that is pre installed in txz_pup
its the heart of making packages from slackbuild scripts

[big_bass]

[technosaurus]

you can set the CFLAGS to whatever you want - it just ignores them ... you have to edit the makefiles after running configure

this type of "forced optimal setting" is quite irritating and why individuals like myself and entire distros write wrappers around gcc
... to filter out the crud
... then you end up with issues with the wrappers
... rinse and repeat

even with decent options and settings grokked in, urxvt is still a giant pile of C++ bloat compared to its C cousins (rxvt and the unicode compliant mrxvt)

the best way to make urxvt small is by compiling mrxvt and making a symlink

here is what mrxvt has:
1. Multi-tab support
2. Run time changeable per-tab titles / backgrounds / colors.
3. Session support for each tab
4. Input broadcasting to all tabs
5. Customizable keyboard shortcuts
6. Translucency and pseudo transparency support
7. JPEG / PNG / XPM background support
8. Off-focus background fading
9. Xft support.
10. Text shadow
11. Menubar / popup menus
12. XIM and multi-language (Chinese/Japanese/Korean) support.
13. Five different scroll bar styles
14. Small and fast.
15. Does not depend on GTK / Qt / Gnome / KDE.
16. Available on multiple platforms.
17. utmp/wtmp/lastlog logging

[amigo]

+1 mrxvt

[sc0ttman]

[technosaurus]