[Buildroot] Putting qtwebkit on a diet

Thomas Petazzoni thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com
Fri Dec 1 14:10:34 UTC 2017


Hello,

On Fri, 1 Dec 2017 16:05:03 +0200, Stefan Fröberg wrote:

> It get's even better. When enabling "optimize for size" feature and ARM
> thumb2 (needed for optimize size on ARM platforms)
> I could reduce QtWebkit size down to 7.6 MB ! :-)
> 
> I try to collect as many feature settings that I can find and then make
> patch serie of 3 where:
> - patch #1 let's user to disable/enable features individually
> - patch #2 introduces quick setting, minimal to disable all features
> leaving only the core of the webkit (enough for surfing? need to test)

OK. I'm not sure yet about patch #2, but I'll have to see the code to
really decide.

> - patch #3 exposes that optimize size feature

Is it just -Os ?

Best regards,

Thomas
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Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Free Electrons
Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering
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