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- From: charette@nntpd.lkg.dec.com (Mark Charette)
- Subject: Re: Linking time for PHIGS programs
- Message-ID: <1992Aug21.140839.18482@nntpd.lkg.dec.com>
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- Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1992 14:08:39 GMT
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- Robert Evans (Robert.Evans@cm.cf.ac.uk) wrote:
- : We're using DECPHIGS on PEX DECstation 5000/120s in a student teaching lab. The students
- : tend to write a PHIGS C program, compile it - find it is incorrect, rewrite it,
- ..
- : Ultrix loader spent linking the PHIGS programs. The PHIGSC library is about 9MB in size
- : and the X11 library is more than 4MB and other libraries are needed too. Even the smallest
- : PHIGS program is about 6MB.
- ..
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- Look in /usr/lib/PHIGS/examples/objects for a faster way of linking.
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- Edit the phigsconfig.h file in /usr/lib/PHIGS/examples to exclude the drivers you don't need, compile
- phigsconfig.c, and place the resulting object in your compile sequence.
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- The official instructions for doing this are somewhere in the release notes.
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