[Ffmpeg-devel] Porting to symbian, possible ??

[Michael Niedermayer]

Hi

On Tue, Aug 15, 2006 at 12:54:57PM +0800, Colin Ward wrote:
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>   1) Executable size.  Given the structure of FFMPEG and the fact that 
> GCC doesn't do function level linking, even if you disable all but a few 
> required codecs you end up with a 2+ MB executable.  Pull in a table or 
> a function from one module and you pull in everything else, even if its 
> not used.  This might not be a problem if you are targeting the more 
> modern phones such as Series 60 DP3 though, as these do have large 
> heaps.  But for the older Symbian OS phones, which often only have a 
> couple of MB heap, forget it.

hmm, does -ffunction-sections and -Wl,--gc-sections have any effect on 
this? ive just found these with google, so no clue if they work ...


and patches to reduce the size if lots of stuff is disabled are welcome as
long as they are not too messy

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