Merge pull request #821 from SteveL-MSFT/reduce-size

Update release build with options to reduce binary size

Author: SteveL-MSFT

dsc/Cargo.toml

@@ -4,11 +4,13 @@ version = "3.1.0-preview.5"
 edition = "2021"
 
 [profile.release]
-strip = true
-# optimize for size
-opt-level = 2
-# enable link time optimization to remove dead code
-lto = true
+codegen-units = 1           # reduces binary size by ~2%
+debug = "full"              # No one needs an undebuggable release binary
+lto = true                  # reduces binary size by ~14%
+opt-level = "s"             # reduces binary size by ~25%
+panic = "abort"             # reduces binary size by ~50% in combination with -Zbuild-std-features=panic_immediate_abort
+split-debuginfo = "packed"  # generates a seperate *.dwp/*.dSYM so the binary can get stripped
+strip = "symbols"           # See split-debuginfo - allows us to drop the size by ~65%
 
 [dependencies]
 clap = { version = "4.5", features = ["derive"] }

dsc_lib/Cargo.toml

@@ -4,11 +4,13 @@ version = "3.0.0"
 edition = "2021"
 
 [profile.release]
-strip = true
-# optimize for size
-opt-level = 2
-# enable link time optimization to remove dead code
-lto = true
+codegen-units = 1           # reduces binary size by ~2%
+debug = "full"              # No one needs an undebuggable release binary
+lto = true                  # reduces binary size by ~14%
+opt-level = "s"             # reduces binary size by ~25%
+panic = "abort"             # reduces binary size by ~50% in combination with -Zbuild-std-features=panic_immediate_abort
+split-debuginfo = "packed"  # generates a seperate *.dwp/*.dSYM so the binary can get stripped
+strip = "symbols"           # See split-debuginfo - allows us to drop the size by ~65%
 
 [dependencies]
 base64 = "0.22"

dscecho/Cargo.toml

@@ -3,6 +3,15 @@ name = "dscecho"
 version = "1.0.0"
 edition = "2021"
 
+[profile.release]
+codegen-units = 1           # reduces binary size by ~2%
+debug = "full"              # No one needs an undebuggable release binary
+lto = true                  # reduces binary size by ~14%
+opt-level = "s"             # reduces binary size by ~25%
+panic = "abort"             # reduces binary size by ~50% in combination with -Zbuild-std-features=panic_immediate_abort
+split-debuginfo = "packed"  # generates a seperate *.dwp/*.dSYM so the binary can get stripped
+strip = "symbols"           # See split-debuginfo - allows us to drop the size by ~65%
+
 [dependencies]
 clap = { version = "4.1", features = ["derive"] }
 rust-i18n = { version = "3.1" }

osinfo/Cargo.toml

@@ -4,11 +4,13 @@ version = "0.1.0"
 edition = "2021"
 
 [profile.release]
-strip = true
-# optimize for size
-opt-level = 2
-# enable link time optimization to remove dead code
-lto = true
+codegen-units = 1           # reduces binary size by ~2%
+debug = "full"              # No one needs an undebuggable release binary
+lto = true                  # reduces binary size by ~14%
+opt-level = "s"             # reduces binary size by ~25%
+panic = "abort"             # reduces binary size by ~50% in combination with -Zbuild-std-features=panic_immediate_abort
+split-debuginfo = "packed"  # generates a seperate *.dwp/*.dSYM so the binary can get stripped
+strip = "symbols"           # See split-debuginfo - allows us to drop the size by ~65%
 
 [dependencies]
 os_info = { version = "3.7" }

registry/Cargo.toml

@@ -9,11 +9,13 @@ default-locale = "en-us"
 load-path = "locales"
 
 [profile.release]
-strip = true
-# optimize for size
-opt-level = 2
-# enable link time optimization to remove dead code
-lto = true
+codegen-units = 1           # reduces binary size by ~2%
+debug = "full"              # No one needs an undebuggable release binary
+lto = true                  # reduces binary size by ~14%
+opt-level = "s"             # reduces binary size by ~25%
+panic = "abort"             # reduces binary size by ~50% in combination with -Zbuild-std-features=panic_immediate_abort
+split-debuginfo = "packed"  # generates a seperate *.dwp/*.dSYM so the binary can get stripped
+strip = "symbols"           # See split-debuginfo - allows us to drop the size by ~65%
 
 [dependencies]
 clap = { version = "4.5", features = ["derive"] }

runcommandonset/Cargo.toml

@@ -4,11 +4,13 @@ version = "0.1.0"
 edition = "2021"
 
 [profile.release]
-strip = true
-# optimize for size
-opt-level = 2
-# enable link time optimization to remove dead code
-lto = true
+codegen-units = 1           # reduces binary size by ~2%
+debug = "full"              # No one needs an undebuggable release binary
+lto = true                  # reduces binary size by ~14%
+opt-level = "s"             # reduces binary size by ~25%
+panic = "abort"             # reduces binary size by ~50% in combination with -Zbuild-std-features=panic_immediate_abort
+split-debuginfo = "packed"  # generates a seperate *.dwp/*.dSYM so the binary can get stripped
+strip = "symbols"           # See split-debuginfo - allows us to drop the size by ~65%
 
 [dependencies]
 clap = { version = "4.4", features = ["derive"] }

y2j/Cargo.toml

@@ -4,11 +4,13 @@ version = "1.0.0"
 edition = "2021"
 
 [profile.release]
-strip = true
-# optimize for size
-opt-level = 2
-# enable link time optimization to remove dead code
-lto = true
+codegen-units = 1           # reduces binary size by ~2%
+debug = "full"              # No one needs an undebuggable release binary
+lto = true                  # reduces binary size by ~14%
+opt-level = "s"             # reduces binary size by ~25%
+panic = "abort"             # reduces binary size by ~50% in combination with -Zbuild-std-features=panic_immediate_abort
+split-debuginfo = "packed"  # generates a seperate *.dwp/*.dSYM so the binary can get stripped
+strip = "symbols"           # See split-debuginfo - allows us to drop the size by ~65%
 
 [dependencies]
 serde_json = { version = "1.0.0", features = ["preserve_order"] }