Vala: reducing the size of dependencies

Question

I am developing small command line utilities using Vala on win32. Programs compiled using vala depend on the following DLLs

• libgobject-2.0-0.dll
• libgthread-2.0-0.dll
• libglib-2.0-0.dll

They are taking up 1500 kbyes of space. Is there a way to reduce the size of these dependencies (besides compressing them with UPX and the like)? I can't imagine a simple helloworld like app using all the features provided by glib.

Thanks!

Answer 1

If your vala source is fairly simple, you may be able to compile it in the posix profile

valac --profile posix hello.vala

Then your binary will not have any dependency outside of the standard C library. However, the posix profile may still be experimental.