binaries are small, dependencies are not

[tomalok]

log_proxy and log_proxy_wrapper are very small -- about 26 KiB each on an Alpine x86_64 host.

However, the lib dependencies that get pulled in, are well over 1 MiB...

# ldd /usr/bin/log_proxy_wrapper
	/lib/ld-musl-x86_64.so.1 (0x7f2ac7afa000)
	libglib-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0 (0x7f2ac79f1000)
	libc.musl-x86_64.so.1 => /lib/ld-musl-x86_64.so.1 (0x7f2ac7afa000)
	libpcre.so.1 => /usr/lib/libpcre.so.1 (0x7f2ac7995000)
	libintl.so.8 => /usr/lib/libintl.so.8 (0x7f2ac7988000)

# ls -lh /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0.6400.4
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root     1019.6K Jul  4 11:50 /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0.6400.4
# ls -lh /usr/lib/libintl.so.8.1.7
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root       41.8K Apr 19 16:02 /usr/lib/libintl.so.8.1.7
# ls -lh /usr/lib/libpcre.so.1.2.12
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root      361.7K Feb 13 11:04 /usr/lib/libpcre.so.1.2.12

Alpine Linux likes to keep things small. I'm curious if the total install size would be significantly less if statically compiled?

[thefab]

From my (little) experience about statically compiling with glib:

• it's not easy and not really documented
• i'm not sure glib is enough modular to get a "binary size" gain

but we are also interested in! (if a build/glib/makefile ninja read this and can provide some help)

[thefab]

I jut made a little test about static compiling:

1,8M	log_proxy
1,8M	log_proxy_wrapper

=> not better

[thefab]

just pushed to master a Makefile option: STATIC=yes for building static binaries

[thefab]

closing this

now released files are statically compiled