--symlink helps a lot! Down to 34M. Thank you. On Wed, Feb 22, 2017 at 11:59 AM Alexander Kobel <a-ko...@a-kobel.de> wrote:
> Hi Trevor, > > On 2017-02-22 11:31, Trevor wrote: > > To run LilyPond on AWS Lambda for LilyBin, I need to upload a zip > > file containing the LilyPond executable and assets, and it must be no > > larger than 50 MB. Recent versions of LilyPond unstable are about 52 > > MB zipped (zip -r9). Are there any large files in the installation > > directory I can delete without breaking anything? Or maybe I could > > compress executables better than zip does? > > some suggestions: > > 1.) Use the --symlink option for zip, i.e., use > zip -r9 --symlink archive.zip <files/directories> > Otherwise, you end up with multiple copies of identical files in the > archive. > > 2.) Remove some of the language data that you won't use from > usr/share/locale/. > > 3.) Use tar and xz if supported by the server (tar -cJf archive.tar.xz > <files/directories>), which brings the "official" 2.19.55 x86_64 binary > from lilypond.org down to ~24 MB. (FWIW, the installer is basically a > bzip2'ed tarball in a shell script wrapper, and weighs ~30 MB.) > > > HTH, > Alexander >
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