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| author | dec05eba <dec05eba@protonmail.com> | 2018-10-04 00:47:48 +0200 |
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| committer | dec05eba <dec05eba@protonmail.com> | 2020-07-06 07:39:33 +0200 |
| commit | 48ad8c87fd6cc901a4616f3ef02e7f163459a4c5 (patch) | |
| tree | 9a56cea822d74e4d0772482e48bb561272de706c /README.md | |
| parent | 3374901c0392a561bc107287bbf5ad54f52c9d71 (diff) | |
Add --bundle-install option to reduce distributable package size
* Downloads libraries from internet if they are missing from the system
* Libraries are shared among all sibs projects as long as they use same
library versions
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@@ -42,6 +42,9 @@ Sibs supports creating a redistributable packages of projects (currently only on Currently a script file is generated which should be used to run the project. The name of the script file is the same as project. This script file will most likely to be removed later. Do NOT run the executable called "program". Because creating a package is currently done by copying c/c++ libraries and precompiled shared libraries on Linux usually depend on gcc runtime libraries which are very large, the distributable package becomes very large; a hello world application extracted from its archive is 6 megabytes... If you want to reduce the size of your package then you will have to compile your project and each dependency from source with clang/musl (gcc c++ runtime is 14mb while clang c++ runtime is 800kb!). + +The package command also comes with --bundle-install option which reduces the size of the distributable package by removing libraries in the package that can be downloaded online, and instead the user will download missing libraries when launching the application for the first time (the libraries are cached). This option is good because if the user already has the libraries installed on their system with a package managed then the user dont have to download the libraries and if the user has other software that was distributed using sibs, then their libraries will be shared with your projects; meaning if one project has a library of one version then it's shared with all software that uses same version of the library. +Libraries that are downloaded are available at: https://github.com/DEC05EBA/libraries # IDE support Sibs generates a compile_commands.json in the project root directory when executing `sibs build` and tools that support clang completion can be used, such as YouCompleteMe. There are several editors that support YouCompleteMe, including Vim, Emacs and Visual Studio Code. Visual studio code now also supports clang completion with C/C++ extension by Microsoft; the extension will ask you which compile_commands.json file you want to use and you can choose the compile_commands.json in the project root directory. |