[PROJ] Proj9 small library size

[Even Rouault]

Le 15/08/2022 à 10:50, Mike Taves a écrit :
> On Mon, 15 Aug 2022 at 19:42, Patrick Elmer <proj at patrickelmer.de> wrote:
>> I have just compiled Proj 9.0.1 on Linux. I am wondering that
>> "libproj.so.25.9.0.1" has a sice of about 5M, whereas the one from Proj
>> 8.2.1 is nearly 81M big.
@Patrick Probably that your 81M build is one that includes debug symbols.
> I've noticed these differences for a while too. You can see it with
> Debian distributions which show package and installed size:
>
> - https://packages.debian.org/bullseye/libproj-dev - PROJ 7 via Autotools
> - https://packages.debian.org/bookworm/libproj-dev - PROJ 9 via CMake
>
> My observation is that autotools builds tend to take up more disk
> space for C++ projects. (For comparison, see
> https://packages.debian.org/buster/libproj-dev for PROJ 5 via
> Autotools when it was a C-only library).
@Mike That's a different thing. libproj-dev from PROJ 7 includes the 
static .a library, whereas the one from PROJ 9 doesn't (since PROJ CMake 
builds only build shared or static libraries, but not both at the same time)
>
> Hopefully someone has a better informed answer!
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