Re: Pro*C 1.5 binary sizes

In article <398jom$ic7_at_tusk.lm.com>, Keith A. Overstreet <kao_at_etgroup.com> writes:
>> > : 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.

Geez, I'm sure glad it's not just me that's seeing such a huge increase in the exe size. I have 6 apps that I've recompiled for v7 and all of them are HUGE!

Some samples:

-rwxr--r--   1 ep60wtu  soi_cad  1429504 Nov 10 09:56 ei_main
-rwxr--r--   1 ep60wtu  soi_cad  3928064 Oct 25 10:53 timesheet
-rwxr--r--   1 ep60wtu  soi_cad  2007040 Oct 25 10:18 index

The first one is an AutoCAD ADS application and the last two are X11/Motif applications (timesheet is compiled with archive libs due to site inconsistency reasons)
All exe's are HP/UX 700 binaries, compiled under HP/UX 9.01. I tried various lib linking orders but didn't make much difference. The link order that I'm using is:

-lsql -lsqlnet -lora -lsqlnet -lnlsrtl -lcv6 -lcore \

                  -lnlsrtl -lcv6 -lcore -lcl

Too much deviation from this order results in a lot of unresolved externs from ld.

Rumors has it that Oracle is working to resolve this problem. They placed the blame on the language support...

-- 

Wade Tsai
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