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amigo · Joined: 02 Apr 2007 Posts: 2225

I just saw a reference to dietxlib-0.04.tar.gz. I am unable to find a link to those sources. Any ideas?

goingnuts · Joined: 07 Dec 2008 Posts: 779

They were here but seems to have vanished. I got the source (2.2Mb) if you need it.

amigo · Joined: 02 Apr 2007 Posts: 2225

Yes, please do make the source available somewhere -my email account is fine for that, even. You know how I collect oddities...

goingnuts · Joined: 07 Dec 2008 Posts: 779

amigo: Send to you by mail.
How about a simple spreadsheet - like The abs Spreadsheet? Builds to approx. 1Mb static linked bin with tinyxlib-4.8.0 & uclibc.

goingnuts · Joined: 07 Dec 2008 Posts: 779

dietxlib published...
Works with a standard Puppy-412-devx dietlibc (v0.31?) and enable you to do quite tiny static linked X11 binaries.
Ex. 9menu compiles to 79Kb (make -f Makefile.noimake CC="diet gcc -Wl,--gc-sections,--sort-common,-s").
dietlibc has recently (20130312) released a new version - I haven't tested that but dietxlib-0.06 works with the previous version 0.32.

goingnuts · Joined: 07 Dec 2008 Posts: 779

Exercising tinyxlib-4.8.0 - which is a tinyxlib born from patched full source of XFree86-4.8.0.

In the image below running 3 different bins of xcalc: Left is normal dynamic linked bin - middle is xcalc from tinyxlib-4.8.0 but merged with 9 other xutilities (xconsole xfontsel xload xmessage xvidtune xclipboard xcutsel xgamma xman) in a multicall binary - and right is single static bin from tinyxlib-4.8.0.

The mcb use 230Kb (or +25%) more memory than the standalone bin - but still only 26% of the memory the dynamic linked bin use.

starhawk · Posted: Wed 05 Feb 2014, 16:14 Post subject:

Hey -- I don't know how earth-shatteringly nasty this is, but a friend of mine found a bug in ldso that (if I'm reading this correctly) affects uClibc, among other things -- which I seem to recall that someone was proposing to use in pUPnGO at one time.

Maybe this is why it didn't work out that way? (or, it's a big nothing and I can't read... that *is* possible, lol)

http://lists.uclibc.org/pipermail/uclibc/2014-February/048221.html

EDIT: also, at his request, here's my friend's website, with some uClibc dev stuff (a pair of chroot build environments) on the front page... nifty, if you know what to do with them Wink

http://c02ware.com/index.php

goingnuts · Joined: 07 Dec 2008 Posts: 779

starhawk: Thanks for the info - the bug thing is way over my head - but the tool chain I might understand - downloading for testing. Very Happy

starhawk · Posted: Wed 05 Feb 2014, 18:39 Post subject:

Here's an update, looks like my guru friend has things fixed, at least in a quick&dirty way...

http://lists.uclibc.org/pipermail/uclibc/2014-February/048222.html

I'll let him know you're checking out his toolchain Smile

starhawk · Posted: Wed 05 Feb 2014, 19:18 Post subject:

Probably should redownload that toolchain, sorry -- Jody only pushed that fix through to c02ware a few minutes ago Wink

technosaurus · Joined: 18 May 2008 Posts: 4282

@goingnuts the mcb will use less on newer kernels due to copy on write improvement ...for each extra process

Edit: I recently revisited my alternative to the 'file' program for getting mime types (and the alternative xdg stuff that rox filer uses) and have significantly improved performance and added type deduction by magic values. I was thinking about patching rox to use it, but I also thought it may be good for rox to fallback to using the extension if its mime type is not handled.... for instance if a .dummy file is clicked it first tries to run application_dummy , but should also try running 'dummy' if it is application/unknown or application_dummy is missing. Any thoughts? If it matters, I have been using rox-0.1.39 mostly, due to its lighter weight, but this part should be compatible with later versions (it does add ~30kb to the binary for the sorted extension tables, but it is 99% constants) I am also patching it to use builtin xpm images for the toolbar and parent mime types (such as image, text, inodes, application, audio, video...) so that it can just be dropped and run anywhere without a bunch of extra files

goingnuts · Joined: 07 Dec 2008 Posts: 779

technosaurus: Might be that it should run a build-in universal file-viewer if unknown? Any links for the rox-0.1.39 source? I definitely like all your patch goals - much appreciated. Any chance of build-in check if an application needs a terminal to run (sometimes an application causes X to freeze or starts a 100% cpu usage in the background)? Might be worth to maintain the original behavior as well (ex: external images for toolbar).

The mcb is quite convenient for Xaw-hungry apps in terms of keeping size and memory usage down. Found that xman is really handy when offline - xcalendar-3.0 and xalarm-3.06 seems usefull to include in the basis X-environment too. And some of them can be "themed" to look quite nice.