C.Reinke wrote:
[...] Why do HOpenGL apps have to be that big (on win2k, the Klein example gives me a 4Mb executable, which seems to be standard size for non-trivial, but tiny, examples; even the Planet example gives about 1Mb, on win2k)? [...]
To get executables of reasonable size, you have to do at least 2 things: * Build all libraries with --split-objs, otherwise using a single entity from a module pulls in *all* code from the module (in a transitive fashion!). Failing to do so almost always results in executables which contain the whole GL/GLU/GLUT binding. * Strip the executables after building. This e.g. cuts down the size by half on Linux, measured for a few simple programs. The size of the executables for the "Hello" and "Smooth" examples are then 184kB and 195kB, respectively (x86-Linux, GHC and OpenGL/GLUT packages from CVS HEAD). This is not that bad, given the 148kB of a "Hello, world!" one-liner... Cheers, S.