For many external lib, python( and www.freebasic.net) use only the DLL version, whcih is very big often if we want to release our program. So, is there such a tool that can scan a DLL then strip the unused function's code out, so yields a small working DLL?
for example, in my program I use only 'compress' function in zlib.dll, then 1. I write a list file in which I emurate the function that I used [code func.lst] compress [/code] 2. run the application [code] shrink zlib.dll func.lst [code] the shrink scans zlib.dll, dumps function 'compress' and all function code on which 'compress' rely, and at last writes tiny-zlib.dll BTW, I know why there is DLL. BTW2, forget upx and so on, they lead to obvious speed down in my experiment -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
