Vala: reducing dependency size

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 occupy 1,500 kilobytes of space. Is there a way to reduce the size of these dependencies (in addition to compressing them using UPX, etc.)? I can not imagine simple helloworld as an application, using all the functions provided by glib.

Thanks!

Answer 1

If your vala source is pretty simple, you can compile it in a posix profile

valac --profile posix hello.vala 

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