On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 10:25 PM, Brion Vibber brion@wikimedia.org wrote:
Aryeh Gregor wrote:
Our current tarballs are 10 MB; we could easily just chuck in Lua binaries for Linux x86-32 and Windows without even noticing the size increase, and allow users to enable it with one line in LocalSettings.php.
Hmm... it might be interesting to experiment with something like this, if it can _really_ be compiled standalone. (Linux binary distribution is a hellhole of incompatible linked library versions!)
Static compiling the stuff? How would this affect the binary size? (And: is static linking working across different libc versions?)
BTW, what about Mac OS / FreeBSD hosts?
Marco