make busybox smaller

Rob Landley rob at landley.net
Tue Mar 7 07:47:41 PST 2006


On Tuesday 07 March 2006 2:06 am, xiaogen.nie at emersonnetwork.com.cn wrote:
> Dear Ms/Mr:
>   I use busybox 0.60.3 .after I make it .The size of executable is 372k .
>   I use   busybox 1.1.0 .   after I make it ,The size of the executale is
> 922k .
>   I want to use busybox ,but the size of exectale is so big.I want to make
> busybox smaller ,how can I do ? think you!

The current busybox has a lot more applets with a lot more features.  To get 
the size down, disable the ones you aren't using.  We use the same "make 
menuconfig" mechanism as the linux kernel does.

> yours
> friend

Rob
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