Re: Pro*C 1.5 binary sizes

> : During a port of our application from Oracle6 to Oracle7, I've noticed
> : that the resulting executable sizes are a factor of 3 or 4 larger than
> : those produced with the Oracle6 libraries. Looking at the libraries
> : showed that they are larger, but that much? I don't have too many
> : extra gig disks and simms sitting around... I thought that using
> : shared libraries would be a good idea, but I haven't found ANY
> : reference to them in the Oracle documentation.
 

> : Has anyone else noticed/worked around this growing size with Pro*C
> : libraries?

Robert Gasch (rgasch_at_nl.oracle.com) wrote:

> Provided you're on a UNIX system, you can say
> strip <executable>

We do. They're still huge. HP-UX 9.0 HP9000/712.

We've tried the ordering of libraries as well. A bit of hit or miss work. They're still huge with the minimum libraries we seem to be able to include.

Any more ideas? We'll try anything once.

-- 
Keith A. Overstreet
Enterprise Technology Group, Inc.