Reduce file size of GSL library

Question

Is there a way to reduce the file size of the compiled GSL library?

Could I just compile some of the sub-libs?

Answer 1

I can think of these ways in which you can get around this -

• A very simple but very effective way to do this is by using dynamic linking. Statically linking code to either your libraries or executables makes them substantially larger. This discussion will probably give you a clearer picture. GSL is built as a dynamic library, so in most cases, you actually have very little of the GSL object files in your own executable files.
• Use compiler optimisations - Strip the binaries using the -s and -Os flag while compiling(using GCC) or use strip --strip-all